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Máire

释义

Legal status
Religious exception
People with the given name
Other uses

Máire is the Irish language form of the Latin Maria, which was in turn a Latin form of the Greek names Μαριαμ, or Mariam, and Μαρια, or Maria, found in the New Testament. Both New Testament names were forms of the Hebrew name מִרְיָם or Miryam

English language name Mary. It was and still is a popular name in Ireland, and is sometimes spelt in its Anglicised form Maura. Historically, Maol Muire (devotee of Mary) was the reverential form used by the Irish, just as Giolla Phádraig (servant of Pádraig) was the reverential usage for what subsequently became Pádraig. Following the Norman Invasion of Ireland, Máire gradually replaced Maol Muire as a given name, as Pádraig gradually replaced Giolla Phádraig. Its overwhelming popularity was due to the Irish devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, but in recent times Irish religious devotion has waned and far fewer girls are being named Máire or Mary.

Completely unrelated to this, Maire is also a female first name in Finland and Estonia.

Legal status

Anyone who is usually known by the name Maria or its derivatives would have been{{weasel-word|date=May 2017}} registered as Máire at school in Ireland as this is the norm with all names where there is a translation. Even outside of school, a woman may, if she so chooses, be known as Máire on all legal documents as an Irish person's name has a legal form in either official language of the State. For example; a woman named Mary Murphy in English would be known in Irish as Máire Ní Mhurchú if she is unmarried and Máire Uí Mhurchú if she is married.

Religious exception

Due to a very strong devotion of Irish Catholics to the Blessed Virgin Mary, a special exception is made for her name. In Irish, she is known as Muire and no one else may take that name similar to the way the name Jesus is not used in most languages. A possible exception is the name Máel Muire, used by both men and women, which denotes "Servant of Mary."

People with the given name

Maire Aunaste (born 1953), an Estonian journalist
Maire Breathnach, an Irish actress
Máire Breatnach, an Irish fiddle player
Maire Comerford (1892-1982), an Irish republican
Máire Drumm (1919-1976), the vice president of Sinn Féin and a commander in Cumann na mBan
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn (born 1950), an Irish politician
Máire Gill (1891–1977), a political activist
Maire Gullichsen (1907–1990), Finnish art collector and patronage
Máire Herbert, Irish historian
Máire Hoctor (born 1963), a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician
Maire Lynch (fl. 1547), a member of the Tribes of Galway
Máire MacNeill (1904-1987), an Irish journalist, folklorist and translator
Máire Mhac an tSaoi (born 1922), an Irish language scholar, poet, writer and academic
Máire Mullarney (1921-2008), an Irish environmentalist, educationalist and Esperanto advocate
Máire Nic an Bhaird (born 1982), a secondary school teacher and Irish language activist
Máire Ní Bhraonáin or Moya Brennan, an Irish singer
Máire Ní Chathasaigh (born 1956), an Irish harpist and singer
Máire Ní Chinnéide (1879–1967), an Irish language activist, playwright and first President of the Camogie Association
Máire Ní Ghuairim (1896-1964), an Irish teacher, author and Sean-nós singer
Maire o Ciaragain, a woman who led Irish clans in revolt against the English in the 15th century
Maire O'Neill (1885-1952), an Irish actress of stage and film
Maire Tecnimont, the head of an Italian Group in Engineering & Main Contracting sector
Máire Uí Dhroigneáin, an Irish actress
Máire Whelan, an Irish barrister and senior counsel

Other uses

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