Mary Ann Hutton

Mary Ann or Margaret Hutton (née Drummond; 1862 – 29 August 1953) was an Irish language scholar and writer.

Hutton was well educated, and was one of the first women to attend the University of London, going on to be awarded the Hermann silver medal in German in 1882 and a Fielden scholarship.

She wrote for An Claidheamh Soluis at the request of Pearse, and is thought to have lectured on Middle Irish in Coláiste Naomh Comhghaill and Ard Sgoil Uladh in Belfast.

Hutton delivered the Margaret Stokes Memorial Lectures in Alexandra College in 1908, speaking on other worldly visions in early Irish literature.

She lived in Dublin for the rest of her life, supporting Conradh na Gaeilge and was heavily involved in the city's cultural activities.

The work was well received, going on to be re-published in 1924 with Celtic revival style illustrations by John Patrick Campbell as Seaghan MacCathmhaoil.

[1] Eoin MacNeill, Douglas Hyde and Louis Claude Purser supported an unsuccessful proposal in 1910 that Hutton be elected to the membership of the Royal Irish Academy.