Máire Bhuí Ní Laoghaire

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Máire Bhuí Ní Laoghaire, 1774-1849?, Irish poet.

Máire Bhuí Ní Laoghaire was born in Túirín na nÉan in Uibh Loaghiare (Iveleary), near Inchigeelagh, County Cork. About 1792 she married Séamus de Búrca, a Skibbereen horsetrader and the couple settled on a holding they purchased near Chéim an Fhia/Keimaneigh, living in some prosperity.

Máire Bhuí was illiterate but her songs and poems survived via the oral folk tradition of the area, as did compositions by her contemporaries such as Antoine Ó Raifteiri.

Her best known composition is Cath Chéim an Fhia (The Battle of Keimaneigh), which graphicly records a fight between the local yeoman militia and the Whiteboys in 1822.

Reference

Oxford Concise Companion to Irish Literature, Robert Welsh, 1996. ISBN 0-19-280080-9

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