Máire Ní Reachtagáin (died 11 April 1733) was a Gaelic poet.

Biography

Máire Ní Reachtagáin was a Gaelic poet. She married

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in 1717. Very little is known about her except for notes left by her husband. She was from

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city though the eulogy of her death asks for laments from

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suggesting she may have been born there. Only a handful of her work remains. In her lament for her brother Saoirse she wrote in the third person and structured it in quatrains. Some of her work was suggested to have been written by her husband though there is no evidence to suggest that was the case.

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