material aimed at the Naíonra (pre-school) and early-reading age groups. Máire has produced, composed incidental music and performed on a range of instruments for more than 40 titles, as well as narrating many of them. Her first book, Vera agus a Veidhlín, a children's musical story, illustrated by Robert Ballagh, was published in Dublin by An Gúm in 2008. In 2013, she was conferred with a Ph.D. by Dublin City University for her study, undertaken in St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, of the acquisition and transmission of sean-nós singing, Iomramh Aonair na nAmhrán: Sealbhú agus Seachadadh Thraidisiún an tSean-nóis i gComhthéacsanna ‘Neamhthraidisiúnta’. Selected discography Solo Angels' Candles (1993) The Voyage of Bran (1994) Celtic Lovers (1997) Angels' Candles/Coinnle na nAingeal (1999) Dreams and Visions in Irish Song / Aislingí Ceoil (2002) Cranna Ceoil / In Full Measure (2009) Collaborations Riverdance: Music from the Show (1995) Tarraing Téad / Pulling Strings (with Cormac De Barra) (2010) References External links http://www.mairebreatnach.com/ Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century Irish women singers Irish fiddlers Irish-language singers Alumni of University College Dublin Alumni of the University of Limerick Alumni of Dublin City University 21st-century Irish women singers 21st-century violinists