About Nellie Ó Cléirigh
Lived 1927 – 2008 (aged 81). Nellie Ó Cléirigh was a historian.
Nellie Ó Cléirigh (29 January 1927 – 16 October 2008), was an Irish lace authority and historian.
Biography Nellie Ó Cléirigh was born Nellie Beary in Clonmel, County Tipperary about 1927. She got her education from the Ursuline convent in Waterford before going on to study history and Irish in University College Dublin. She worked as a civil servant in the Land Commission but on her marriage she had to resign as the marriage bar was still in effect.
She died in 2008 and was buried in Deansgrange Cemetery.
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Who was Nellie Ó Cléirigh?
Irish lace authority and historian
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Nellie Ó Cléirigh was born on 29 January 1927 in Clonmel.
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Nellie Ó Cléirigh died on 16 October 2008.
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Nellie Ó Cléirigh was a historian.
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