Article: Committed educator and noted Spanish translator

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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