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Sorcha Ní Ghuairim (11 October 1911 – 1976) was a teacher, author, and Sean-nós singer.

There was nothing out of the ordinary about the Ó Guairim family. Sorcha was the youngest of 11 children.[1] She joined her sister Máire Ní Ghuairim, in Dublin in 1928 and obtained a teaching post with Conradh na Gaeilge. She studied at UCG with Tomas O Maile. An active promoter of Irish, she wrote a column for the Irish Press which she later edited.

She was a well-known sean-nos singer, making her first record - issue as Folkways Records FW 861 - whle visiting her brother in the USA in 1945.

She moved to England in 1955, apparently disillusioned with the future of the Irish language. She was found dead in her apartment in London, and buried in Carna on 24 December 1976.

References

  1. ^ "Sorcha Ní Ghuairim, 1911–1976". Cumann Merriman. Cumann Merriman Teoranta. Retrieved 17 Aug 2011.
  • Dictionary of Irish Biography ... to the Year 2002, p.937, Cambridge, 2010.

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