hero Piaras Feiritéar and Meg Russell, the woman for whom he wrote his greatest works of love poetry in the Irish language. Her poem "Jack" and An Bhean Óg Ón both have featured on the Leaving Certificate Irish course, at both Higher and Ordinary Levels, from 2006 to 2010. Personal life In 1962, she married Irish politician, writer, and historian Conor Cruise O'Brien (1917–2008) in a Roman Catholic Wedding Mass in Dublin. This made Máire the stepmother to O'Brien's children from his 1939 civil marriage. She was opposed to the Vietnam War, attending a protest against it in 1969. She travelled with him to the Republic of the Congo when he was chosen by Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld as the United Nations representative there during the Katanga Crisis. Máire then lived with her husband in New York City, where he worked as a Humanities professor at NYU after the Katanga Crisis ended O'Brien's diplomatic career. She later returned with him to live in Dublin. The O'Briens later adopted two children, Patrick and Margaret. List of works Mhac an tSaoi wrote: Margadh na Saoire (Baile Átha Cliath: Sáirséal agus Dill, 1956) Codladh an Ghaiscigh (1973) An Galar Dubhach (1980) An Cion go dtí Seo (1987) "Writing In Modern Irish — A Benign Anachronism?", The Southern Review, 31 Special Issue on Irish Poetry (1995) The Same Age as the State, O'Brien Press, Dublin ; Cérbh í Meg Russell?, Leabhar Breac, (2008). Scéal Ghearóid Iarla, Leabhar Breac, (2010). Mhac an tSaoi and O'Brien together wrote: A Concise History of Ireland, Thames and Hudson, London (1972) Mhac an tSaoi translated Rainer Maria Rilke: Marbhnaí Duino (Duineser Elegien), Leabhar Breac, (2013) References 1922 births 2021 deaths 20th-century Irish poets 20th-century Irish-language poets 20th-century Irish women writers 21st-century Irish poets 21st-century Irish women writers Academics of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Alumni of University College Dublin Aosdána members Diplomats from Dublin (city) German–Irish translators Irish expatriates in France Irish expatriates in Spain Irish expatriates in the United States Irish-language poets Irish modernist poets Irish women diplomats Irish women poets New York University faculty People from Ranelagh Translators from German Translators to Irish