His father was Mícheál Ó Guithín, a storyteller, and Feiritéar learned to tell stories from him as a child.

It was a family tradition, as her uncle Tadhg and her grandmother and grand-aunt, Kate Shee and Mary Ruiséal Louth, were storytellers.

[1][2][3][4] She married James Feiritéar in 1942 and they had seven children, Brandán, Pádraig, Seán, Micheál and Séamus, Máirín and Treasa.

Seamus became the headmaster of Colaiste Mhuire national school in Dublin (Irish-speaking), the longest-serving principle in Ireland for many years.

[citation needed] Feiritéar told stories on Raidió na Gaeltachta and to schoolchildren attending storytelling workshops.