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Máire Mhac an tSaoi

Side by side

ONE YEAR AFTER

I arrange my memory in readiness for the grave,
Put spices in her shroud and silver coins;
The snow is still on the cemetery ridge;
I lie down beside the body on my bed.

© Translation: 2011, Louis de Paor
From: The Miraculous Parish / An Paróiste Míorúilteach
Publisher: O\'Brien Press / Cló Iar-Chonnacht, Dublin, 2011

Ceann bliana

Cóirím mo chuimhne chun dulta dhi ’on chré,
Fillim spíosraí san eisléine léi agus airgead cúrsach;
Tá sneachta fós ar ithir na cille,
Sinim le hais an choirp ar mo leabaidh.

© 2011, Máire Mhac an tSaoi
From: The Miraculous Parish / An Paróiste Míorúilteach
Publisher: O\'Brien Press / Cló Iar-Chonnacht, Dublin

Máire Mhac an tSaoi

(Ireland, 1922)

Máire Mhac an tSaoi was born in Dublin in 1922. Her father, Seán MacEntee, a native of Belfast, was a prominent politician who had served in the 1916 rising against British rule in Ireland. Her mother was a teacher and scholar. Her uncle, Monsignor Pádraig de Brún, was a distinguished and influential schlolar of the Irish language. From the age of two she spent up to five months a year in his h...

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ONE YEAR AFTER

I arrange my memory in readiness for the grave,
Put spices in her shroud and silver coins;
The snow is still on the cemetery ridge;
I lie down beside the body on my bed.

© 2011, Louis de Paor
From: The Miraculous Parish / An Paróiste Míorúilteach
Publisher: 2011, O\'Brien Press / Cló Iar-Chonnacht, Dublin

ONE YEAR AFTER

I arrange my memory in readiness for the grave,
Put spices in her shroud and silver coins;
The snow is still on the cemetery ridge;
I lie down beside the body on my bed.

© 2011, Louis de Paor
From: The Miraculous Parish / An Paróiste Míorúilteach
Publisher: 2011, O\'Brien Press / Cló Iar-Chonnacht, Dublin