Caitlín Maude
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Caitlín Maude (22 May 1941 – 6 June 1982) was an
Early life
Maude was born in Casla, County Galway, and reared in the Irish language. Her mother, Máire Nic an Iomaire, was a school teacher, and Caitlín received her primary education from her on a small island off the coast of Rosmuc, Connemara. Caitlín's father, John Maude, was from Cill Bhriocáin township near Rosmuc.
Caitlín Maude attended
Career
She was widely known as an actor. She acted at the University, at
She began writing
As a member of the Dublin Metropolitan
She was also a distinguished sean-nós singer. She made one album in this genre, Caitlín (released in 1975 on Gael Linn Records), now available as a CD. It contains both traditional songs and a selection of readings of her poetry.
Personal life
She married Cathal Ó Luain in 1969. They had one child Caomhán, their son.
Death and legacy
She died of complications from cancer in 1982 aged 41, and is buried in Bohernabreena graveyard, which overlooks the city from the Dublin Mountains.
In 2001, a new writers' centre in
According to Louis de Paor, "Although no collection of her work was published during her lifetime, Caitlín Maude had a considerable influence on Irish language poetry and poets, including Máirtín Ó Direáin, Micheál Ó hAirtnéide, Tomás Mac Síomóin, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. That influence is a measure of the dramatic force of her personality, her exemplary ingenuity and commitment to the language, and her ability as a singer to embody the emotional disturbance at the heart of a song. Her collected poems are relatively slight, including incomplete drafts and fragments, but reveal a poetic voice confident of its own authority, drawing on the spoken language of the Connemara Gaeltacht but rarely on its conventions of oral composition or, indeed, on precedents in Irish poetry in either language. The best of her work is closer to the American poetry of the 1960s in its use of looser forms that follow the rhythms of the spoken word and the sense of the poem as direct utterance without artifice, a technique requiring a high degree of linguistic precision and formal control."[5]
References
- ^ Louis de Paor (2016), Leabhar na hAthghabhála: Poems of Repossession: Irish-English Bilingual Edition, Bloodaxe Books. Page 235.
- ^ ’[T]á tnúthán spioradálta iontach ionam agus sílim go mbeidh sé seo le brath go láidir ar mo chuid filíochta amach anseo’: quoted in Ó Coigligh 1984: see introduction.
- ^ "The Irish xamination in the Leaving Certificate for 2012 onwards (Higher Level, Ordinary Level and Foundation Level)" (PDF). State Examinations Commission. December 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 November 2013. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
- ^ New Writer's Center Named after Poet
- ^ Louis de Paor (2016), Leabhar na hAthghabhála: Poems of Repossession: Irish-English Bilingual Edition, Bloodaxe Books. Page 235.
Sources
- Ó Coigligh, Ciarán (ed.) (1984). Caitlín Maude: dánta. Coiscéim.
- Caitlín Maude - Caitlín [CD]. Ref: CEFCD042