Máire Ní Shíthe

Máire Ní Shíthe (1868–13 July 1955) was an Irish language writer and translator from West Cork.

Máire (Minnie) Ní Shíthe was born to Timothy Sheehy[1] and Ann Deasy in Ballymacown, Killnagross, near Clonakilty, County Cork about 1868.

Ní Shíthe wrote for An Claidheamh Soluis where she was published using the pseudonym Dul Amu, first used on 2 December 1899 in Fáinne an Lae.

Ní Shíthe worked as a translator for An Gúm as well as being the Irish language editor for the Cork Sun in 1903.

[4][5][6][7] Her translation in 1930, An Geocach Duine Uasail, of Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme was performed at the Gate Theatre, where it was directed by Micheál Mac Liammóir, as well as in Damer Hall in 1958.