Máire Mhac an tSaoi: Contradictory views in emerging voice

A documentary on Máire Mhac an tSaoi gives a rare insight to the poet, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

Máire Mhac an tSaoi: Contradictory views in emerging voice

MÁIRE Mhac an tSaoi was born in 1922. It was six years after her father, Seán MacEntee, took part in the Easter Rising, a man who fought in the GPO, co-founded Fianna Fáil and served as Seán Lemass’s Tánaiste in the 1960s.

In one of her Irish-language poems, trying to tease out where herself and her father became strange with each other, Mhac an tSaoi wonders: “I am the same age as the state/ and neither turned out as you wished.”

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