Máire Mhac an tSaoi

Máire Mhac an tSaoi is a scholar, a novelist, and one of the greatest poets in Modern Irish.
 
Her work includes the poetry collections Codladh an Ghaiscígh (1956), Margadh na Saoire agus Véarsaí Eile (1973), Shoa agus Dánta Eile (1999) as well as the work of scholarship Dhá Scéal Artúraíochta (1946), the novella A Bhean Óg Ón (2001) and her autobiography The Same Age as the State (2003). She worked for a while as well on the team of the English-Irish Dictionary under Professor Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
 
Describing her autobiography, the poet Seamus Heaney had this much to say: “There is truth to experience here, a forthrightness about passion and transgression that is thrilling and exemplary.”
 
Máire Mhac an tSaoi was appointed Honoury Professor in Irish Studies in National University of Ireland, Galway, in 2005.

Poetry

Margadh na saoire (Sáirséal & Dill, 1956)
Codladh an ghaiscígh agus véarsaí eile (Sáirséal & Dill, 1973)
An galar dubhach (Sáirséal & Dill, 1980)
An cion go dtí seo (Sáirséal Ó Marcaigh, 1987)
Shoa agus dánta eile (Sairséal Ó Marcaigh, 1999)

Novels

Scéal Gheareóid Iarla (Leabhar Breac, 2010)
A Bhean Óg (Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 2001

Non-Fiction

Cérbh í Meg Russell? (Leabhar Breac, 2008) [i gcomhar le Máire Mac Conghail agus Liz Ó Droma]
A Concise History of Ireland (Thames and Hudson, 1972) [i gcomhar le Conor Cruise O’Brien]
Dhá sgéal Artúraíochta (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1946)

Autobiography

The same age as the State (O’Brien Press, 2003)

Translations

Marbhnaí Duino (Leabhar Breac, 2012) [aistriúchán go Gaeilge ar Duinere Elegian le Rainer Maria Rilke]
Trasládáil (Lagan Press, 1997) [ bunleaganacha Gaeilge móide a cuid aistriúchán go Béarla ar dhánta le Maghnas Ó Domhnaill, Liam Dall Ó hIfearnáin, Piaras Feirtéir agus eile]
Miserere (Gill & Macmillan, 1971) [aistriúchán go Béarla ar dhánta le Mons. de Brún]
A Heart full of Thought (Dolmen, 1959) [aistriúchán go Béarla ar dhánta ón nGaeilge]