There are bi-lingual sleeve notes for Gael-Linn's vinyl LP anthology, Máire Ní Scolaí. I am trying to hack through the Gaelic notes authored by Pádraic Ó Raghallaigh.

For a start, Ó Raghallaigh's notes refer to Dublin's "Modhscoil Láir," I am ignorant of this. Ní Scolaí, after a childhood in County Wicklow where her mother's people came from, seems to have been sent to this Dublin school for her secondary education. And it was then, according to Ó Raghallaigh, that she studied voice with a Mrs. Gallagher or "Ghallchóir" who laid the technical foundation on which her career as a singer would be built.

Next, the Gaelic commentary takes us to the Waterford Gaeltacht, and the Coláiste na Rinne, for Máire Ní Scolaí's indepth study of the Gaelic language; no year/time is given, rather it is written that her attendance and study was during the era of educators An Fear Mór a/k/a Seamus Ó hEochaidh, Nicolas Tobin, and Cormac Ó Cadhla. "It is not surprising, therefore, that in almost no time she could communicate and express herself in the vernacular."

From there, then, to Galway, which city would anchor her adult career and personal life. Máire's little sister Mona joined her here, it says, and they were both well-known as singers in Galway.

The notes in Gaelic are peppered with name-dropping. I will have to enter the translation piece by piece, as it is slow work. I do see that the next paragraph introduces Liam Ó Buachalla; the two met and married in Galway. To be continued.