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Black Irish Rose
the warrior in the red petticoat
Created on 2008-09-08 05:06:52 (#16540954), last updated 2009-02-03
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Basic Info| Name: | Máire NiStandún MacEibhir |
|---|---|
| Location: | Ireland |
BioMáire Standún MacEibhir is a wife, mother, teacher, friend and above all a staunch believer in the freedom of Ireland, the freedom from British rule, freedom to speak the Gael language and the freedom to do as she pleases.
He shrugged, turning his gaze out the window. "That's no solution, a Mháirín. All the town will think you're insane. Or a witch. Till you find yourself a husband, you must be careful."
"Careful?" Maire's voice cracked. "Sweet Jesus, Father, we could both of us be shot or more likely..."
"Hush!" he snapped, though her voice had been more of a hiss than a shout. The priest took a deep breath and leafed absently through the old primer, to the center, where the pages were white and the handwriting very different. "I mean careful of your reputation. It's a vase you cannot mend, if you should …"
"Hush yourself, Ó Murchú. The only reputation I have is that my mother was unfaithful to my father, who is not my father at all. And that I have the sharpest tongue in the parish." --RA MacAvoy's The Grey Horse
At twenty-three, (in the year 1882) the dark-haired woman met and married Ruairí MacEibhir, possibly the only man in Connemara that would have her as wife. Of course, he was as much of an enigma as she...if more unusual in the long run. Together they raised her sister's child along with three sons of their own in a full to bursting home against the cliff rocks of Knockduff.
Disclaimer and Notes:
This journal is for role playing and fun. I am not RA MacAvoy or Julianna Margulies (the PB used for Máire). Not harm or disrespect to either is intended. The book left off after a vague epilogue with the family, children grown, disappearing some time in roughly 1949. The contents on this journal will probably span the time between the ending of the book and the epilogue. Possibly beyond.
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Information on púca can be found here
Some Gaelic phrases Máire uses can be translated here
He shrugged, turning his gaze out the window. "That's no solution, a Mháirín. All the town will think you're insane. Or a witch. Till you find yourself a husband, you must be careful."
"Careful?" Maire's voice cracked. "Sweet Jesus, Father, we could both of us be shot or more likely..."
"Hush!" he snapped, though her voice had been more of a hiss than a shout. The priest took a deep breath and leafed absently through the old primer, to the center, where the pages were white and the handwriting very different. "I mean careful of your reputation. It's a vase you cannot mend, if you should …"
"Hush yourself, Ó Murchú. The only reputation I have is that my mother was unfaithful to my father, who is not my father at all. And that I have the sharpest tongue in the parish." --RA MacAvoy's The Grey Horse
At twenty-three, (in the year 1882) the dark-haired woman met and married Ruairí MacEibhir, possibly the only man in Connemara that would have her as wife. Of course, he was as much of an enigma as she...if more unusual in the long run. Together they raised her sister's child along with three sons of their own in a full to bursting home against the cliff rocks of Knockduff.
Disclaimer and Notes:
This journal is for role playing and fun. I am not RA MacAvoy or Julianna Margulies (the PB used for Máire). Not harm or disrespect to either is intended. The book left off after a vague epilogue with the family, children grown, disappearing some time in roughly 1949. The contents on this journal will probably span the time between the ending of the book and the epilogue. Possibly beyond.
Icons came from here
Information on púca can be found here
Some Gaelic phrases Máire uses can be translated here
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an cheathrú rúa, anraí Ó reachtaire, chickens, connemara, cooking, dublin, eibhlín, fishermen, gaels, galway county, ireland, knockduff, marriage, mending, motherhood, my children, my husband, my priest, my sister, ponies, púca, red petticoats, ruairí maceibhir, tadhg Ó murchú, tea, teaching, the sea
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