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Thread #69073   Message #3797827
Posted By: keberoxu
26-Jun-16 - 03:59 PM
Thread Name: Maire Ni Scolai (1909 - 1985) traditional singer
Subject: RE: Maire Ni Scolai (1909 - 1985) traditional singer
Continuing, from the third paragraph of the LP sleeve notes originally printed in Gaelic.

In Galway she met Liam Ó Buachalla, the man she would marry. His origins, also, were in Leinster, to the south ("anoir"); at the time he worked as a lecturer in Galway's Coláiste na hIolscoile in "I gCathair na dTreabh." This is all over my head. More name-dropping: Ó Raghallaigh discloses, at the time of publishing his notes for the Gael-Linn album, that the Department of the Gaeltacht includes an assistant secretary named Séamus Mac Úgó. In younger days, however, Mac Úgó, along with Ó Buachalla and Tomás Ó Máille, Ollamh, were jointly engaged in the study of Gaelic dialects, in which study Ní Scolaí assisted them. At the same time, the young singer did her own song-collecting in Connacht.

Presumably in Galway, she founded the Coláiste chorus which performed at the Coláiste Claisceadal, which she also started; she prepared and rehearsed this chorus with the goal of performing at the Connacht Feis and the Limerick Féile, "feis agus fleadh." There's more, much more. Later post.