I lack a date for the following quotes, so old as to be archive material. They come from the Irish Independent; the journalist is Marie O'Reilly.

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Roisin Ni Sheaghdha, Mrs. Seamus O Tuama, is one of a family that has done a lot to preserve old cultural traditions by bringing them into key with the contemporary mood: through music, particularly the harp, and through a sincere devotion to the Irish language.

Mrs. O Tuama's father is Mr. Sean P. O Seaghdha. Selected [in his youth] for an Irish cricket team to tour Australia, he had to choose between it and marriage, and marriage won. The New Mrs. O Seaghdha knew no Irish, but she learned it in Gaelic League classes and in the Gaeltacht; and, when the children were growing up, only Irish was spoken at home.

All six children -- five girls and a boy, Finbarr -- were among the first thirty pupils in Scoil Mhuire, the all-Irish National School in Marlborough Street. The sisters went on to Scoil Bhrighde and had their first French lessons under Miss Louise Gavan Duffy, that brilliant educationist who, born in Nice, had French as her first language. From then on, in Mrs. O Tuama's educational program, French and Irish were interwoven, as they are for her five children who speak both languages more easily than they speak English.

[Ultimately, Seamus O Tuama and Roisin Ni She would go on to raise a total of nine children.]

In fact, one French girl, who came to them on a language-exchange basis, told them that she had learned more Irish than English during her stay -- much, I may add, to Mrs. O'Tuama's delight and satisfaction.
While she was herself an Intermediate Student in Eccles Street (St Catherine?), Mrs. O Tuama spent her summers teaching the old songs in Colaiste Rinn, and the money she earned, a substantial twenty pounds a month, financed a three-months' course in two successive years in the University of Caen. She graduated from University College, Dublin, in Celtic Studies, and for the past number of years has been Ireland's delegate to Celtic Congresses abroad. Last year in Brittany she read a paper written in Breton.
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