Maire O'Neill
Máire O'Neill (often Maire O'Neill wrote, bourgeois Mary Allgood, born January 12, 1885 in Dublin, Ireland, † November 2, 1952 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England) was an Irish actress of the 20th century.
Life
After the death of her father the little Molly, Mary Allgood, was spent together with her older sister Sara in an orphanage. After leaving the orphanage, she began an apprenticeship as a seamstress. In 1900, Maud Gonne had the women's organization Inghinidhe na hÉireann founded (Eng. Daughters of Ireland ), among others, the goal of which was to give the Irish women Irish history, language and culture. Both sisters attended the courses of the Association for Theatre. There was Willie Fay her teacher and she took this on in the National Theatre Society, the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
1905 met Mary Allgood, who had now reached the stage name Maire O'Neill, the Irish playwright John Millington Synge for the first time, fell in love with it. Synge wrote for Máire O'Neill roles in such plays as The Playboy of the Western World and Deirdre of the Sorrows. In September 1907, Synge underwent an operation on the neck, in which it was found that the writer was suffering from Hodgkin 's lymphoma and the tumor could not be operated on. One day before Synge's death the couple became engaged.
1911 married Máire O'Neill theater critic GH Mair from Manchester Guardian, who died in 1926. In 1914 she made her debut in New York at the Hudson Theatre in the play General John Regan. In 1926 she married her second husband, Arthur Sinclair, the actor at the Abbey Theatre was. The couple had two children together, but divorced later.
In the years 1930-1952, Máire O'Neill played in over a dozen feature films. Among them was the 1930 film Juno and the Paycock by director Alfred Hitchcock. The end of life, she was devoted to alcohol and died in hospital from burns she had suffered in your home.
Afterlife
Described in 2010 the Irish writer Joseph O'Connor 's novel Ghost Light ( German: Irrlicht ) the love story of Máire O'Neill and John Millington Synge. The novel was published in 2012 in German translation at S. Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt am Main.