Maeve

The heroine, Queen Maeve, is a warrior and battle-leader.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview with Jules Watson, Part 3 2009

The story of the past — these “out of time” sequences — could’ve been told in Maeve’s POV as well, but I realized early on that the story would be richer for falling into Moira’s POV and telling the story of their childhood and her demise from her POV.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Therese Walsh, The Last Will of Moira Leahy, part 2 2009

Now the expression that Maeve had worn when she came in from the phone call made more sense; she had looked just like an exasperated parent fighting with her child, and the pieces of the exchange we had overheard sounded like that too.

The Legacy Kirsten Tranter 2010

The late Rose, wife of Innkeeper Jeoff, had called Maeve "an innocent."

The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

Yes, it is the source from which both "Maeve" and "Mab" are derived, as far as I know.

Cat V. Monkey - Last Tango In Paris batwrangler 2008

Does it follow that the lesson of "Maeve" is that it were better for Ireland to be depopulated in her pursuit of national individuality, of ideal beauty, than to drift along to complete Anglicanization, even though that bring riches, peace, and content?

Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914

"Maeve" has always seemed to me a lesser play than "The Heather Field," and it now leaves me even colder than of old.

Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914

In "Maeve," the heroine and Finola are sympathetically presented, and there is a kind of attraction as well as decided repulsion in Peg Inerny.

Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914

It is the landlords and middle-class people that occupy the foreground of his plays, Peg Inerny in "Maeve" (1899) being the only important character a peasant, unless Mrs. Font in "The Enchanted Sea" (1902) can be called a member of a class that she was born to, but from which her marriage removed her.

Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914

"Maeve" was not so well played at its production during the second season's performances of "The Irish Literary Theatre" in February, 1900, as "The Heather Field" had been performed in 1899, but it was almost as enthusiastically received.

Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914