Máire O'Neill
Máire O'Neill (often written Maire O'Neill , real name 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 her father died, little Molly , Mary Allgood, was taken to an orphanage with her older sister Sara . After leaving the orphanage, she began an apprenticeship as a seamstress. In 1900 Maud Gonne founded the women’s organization Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Eng. Daughters of Ireland ), one of the aims of which was to convey Irish history, language and culture to Irish women. Both sisters participated in the courses of the theater association. There Willie Fay was her teacher and he accepted her into the National Theater Society , the Abbey Theater in Dublin.
In 1905 Mary Allgood, who had since taken the stage name Máire O'Neill, met Irish playwright John Millington Synge for the first time, who fell in love with her. Synge has written roles for Máire O'Neill in plays such as The Playboy of the Western World and Deirdre of the Sorrows . In September 1907, Synge underwent an operation on his neck, which found that the writer had Hodgkin's lymphoma and that the tumor could no longer be operated on. The couple got engaged the day before Synge's death.
In 1911, Máire O'Neill married the Manchester Guardian's theater critic GH Mair , who died in 1926. In 1914 she made her debut in New York at the Hudson Theater in the play General John Regan . In 1926 she married her second husband Arthur Sinclair, who was an actor at the Abbey Theater . The couple had two children together, but later divorced.
Between 1930 and 1952, Máire O'Neill starred in over a dozen feature films. Among them was the 1930 film Juno and the Paycock by director Alfred Hitchcock . At the end of her life she was addicted to alcohol and died in the hospital from burns that she sustained in her apartment.
Afterlife
In 2010, the Irish writer Joseph O'Connor described the love story of Máire O'Neill and John Millington Synge in his novel Ghost Light (German: Irrlicht). The novel was published in German translation in 2012 by S. Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt am Main.
Filmography
- 1930: Juno and the Paycock , directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
- 1934: Sing As We Go , directed by Basil Dean .
- 1938: Penny Paradise , directed by Carol Reed .
- 1939: Sword of Honor , directed by Maurice Elvey .
- 1940: Dr. O'Dowd , directed by Herbert Mason .
- 1941: Love on the Dole , directed by John Baxter .
- 1942: Those Kids from Town , directed by Lance Comfort .
- 1946: Send for Paul Temple , directed by John Argyle .
- 1952: Judgment Deferred , directed by John Baxter.
- 1952: Treasure Hunt , directed by John Paddy Carstairs .
Web links
- Maire O'Neill in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- About the novel Ghost Light (en.)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | O'Neill, Máire |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Allgood, Mary (maiden name); O'Neill, Maire |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish theater and film actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin , Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 2, 1952 |
| Place of death | Basingstoke , Hampshire , England |