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Article: Committed educator and noted Spanish translator
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- September 5, 2009
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Maria Isabel Foley MARIA ISABEL (Maribel) Foley (nee Butler), who
has died aged 82, was a university lecturer in Spanish and a
translator into Spanish of many notable works of Irish literature.
Her love of Spain and her academic career in University College
Dublin mirrored her family history. She was born in in 1926 into a
Wild Geese family who had moved to Spain from Ireland during the
18th century.
Educated by the Society of the Sacred Heart in Madrid, she
witnessed the impact of the Spanish Civil War which left a deep
impression on her and, on her own admission, instilled in her a
great sense of courage.
During the 1940s she read for the licenciate in classics and
philosophy at the ...
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