Maeve Ingoldsby
{{Short description|Irish writer (1947–2021)}}
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| birth_name = Maeve Ingoldsby
| birth_date = 1947
| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland
| death_date = {{Death date|2021|9|29|df=y}}
| death_place = Portmarnock, Dublin, Ireland
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| occupation = Playwright, author
| language = English, Irish
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| period = 1978 onwards
| genre = Comedy, drama
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Maeve Ingoldsby McDonagh (1947 – 29 September 2021){{cite book |title= Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Irish women's writing and traditions |editor-last=Bourke |editor-first=Angela |isbn= 0-393-03046-6 |page= 1283 |volume=2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qZ6W1LiIyYYC |access-date=2010-05-25}} also known as Maeve Nic Giolla Iosa,{{Cite web |date=7 February 2001 |title=Little people, big dramas |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/little-people-big-dramas-1.278226 |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=The Irish Times |language=en |archive-date=3 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003000040/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/little-people-big-dramas-1.278226 |url-status=live }} was an Irish writer of the Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) radio comedy show Only Slaggin' and writer on RTÉ television soap operas Glenroe and Fair City. She was a well-known playwright and satirist.
Early life
Ingoldsby was born in Dublin, one of the eight children of Colm Ingoldsby and Maureen Ingoldsby.{{Cite web |title=Death Notice of Maeve McDonagh (née Ingoldsby) (Portmarnock, Dublin) |url=https://rip.ie/death-notice/maeve-mcdonagh-dublin-portmarnock-456956 |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=RIP.ie |language=en |archive-date=23 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250123163655/https://rip.ie/death-notice/maeve-mcdonagh-dublin-portmarnock-456956 |url-status=live }} She was a school teacher as a young woman.{{Cite journal |date=2024-10-16 |title=Maeve Ingoldsby - an Irish children's theatre legend remembered |url=https://www.rte.ie/culture/2024/1016/1475852-maeve-ingoldsby-an-irish-childrens-theatre-legend-remembered/ |journal=RTÉ |language=en}}
Career
Ingoldsby wrote for the radio comedy programme Only Slaggin', and wrote episodes for television soap operas Glenroe and Fair City. She wrote numerous children's plays including Earwigs, which was awarded "Best Young Peoples' Production" at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 1995. Two of her plays were the bases for children's operas of Colin Mawby, commissioned and first performed by the National Chamber Choir of Ireland.{{cite web |url=http://cmc.ie/composers/pdfs/84.pdf |publisher=The Contemporary Music Centre Ireland |title=Colin Mawby |year=2009 |access-date=21 November 2011 |archive-date=13 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121213062920/http://cmc.ie/composers/pdfs/84.pdf |url-status=live }} She was writer-i-residence and script editor with the Barnstorm Theatre Company in Kilkenny. She wrote seven pantos for the Gaiety Theatre, and six more for the Performing Arts School Galway.[https://irishplayography.com/person?personid=33452 "People: Maeve Ingoldsby"] Playography (Irish Theatre Institute).{{Cite web |last=McBride |first=Charlie |last2= |last3= |last4= |date=23 December 2009 |title=PASG’s panto The Frog Prince |url=https://www.advertiser.ie/Galway/article/20511/pasgs-panto-the-frog-prince |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=Galway Advertiser |archive-date=30 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730121429/http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/20511/pasgs-panto-the-frog-prince |url-status=live }}
In 1997 Ingoldsby held an international arts residency in the United States,{{Cite news |date=1997-05-18 |title=Autumn notes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-herald-autumn-notes/171161702/ |access-date=2025-04-26 |work=The Miami Herald |pages=1011 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |last=Dolen |first=Christine |date=1997-10-22 |title=Irish playwright always at home around children |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-herald-irish-playwright-always/171161276/ |access-date=2025-04-26 |work=The Miami Herald |pages=239 |via=Newspapers.com}} and was the first Author in Residence at the Bienes Center for the Literary Arts in Florida.{{Cite news |date=1997-10-12 |title=Playwright delivering Irish views |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/south-florida-sun-sentinel-playwright-de/171161513/ |access-date=2025-04-26 |work=South Florida Sun Sentinel |pages=94 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Personal life
Ingoldsby married Bernard McDonagh and had five sons and a daughter. She died on 29 September 2021, age 74, at her home in Portmarnock. In 2024, her play The Bus, written with Philip Hardy, was produced by Barnstorm Theatre Company and toured in Ireland. Her son Brian McDonagh was Mayor of Fingal in 2024.{{Cite web |title=Four Writers selected for the Irish Writers Centre’s National Mentoring Programme 2024 |url=https://www.fingal.ie/news/four-writers-selected-irish-writers-centres-national-mentoring-programme-2024 |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=Fingal County Council |language=en |archive-date=4 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241004112710/https://www.fingal.ie/news/four-writers-selected-irish-writers-centres-national-mentoring-programme-2024 |url-status=live }} Her sons Seán, Niall, and Gus are all professional actors.{{Cite web |date=2014-03-18 |title=The Big Mixtape in Malahide |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/fingal/the-big-mixtape-in-malahide/30101441.html |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=Irish Independent |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Manning |first=John |date=2016-06-10 |title=Comedy at 'High Rock' |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/fingal/comedy-at-high-rock/34775652.html |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=Irish Independent |language=en}}
Works
- Firestone (1990)
- Earwigs (1995)
- Bananas in the Bread Bin (1997)
- Silly Bits of Sky (1998){{Cite web |title=Silly Bits of Sky (2007) by Maeve Ingoldsby |url=https://digital-archive.kilkenny.ie/items/show/362 |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=Kilkenny Digital Archive |archive-date=15 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250315181412/https://digital-archive.kilkenny.ie/items/show/362 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Hindle |first=Bryana |date=26 February 2007 |title=Silly Bits of Sky at the TF |url=http://www.castlebar.ie/Stage_Plays/Silly_Bits_of_Sky_printer.shtml |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=Castlebar.ie}}
- Scaredycats (1999){{Cite news |date=1999-03-16 |title=Arts Diary: Scaredycats |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-herald-arts-diary-scaredycats/171160673/ |access-date=2025-04-26 |work=Evening Herald |pages=38 |via=Newspapers.com}}
- Kevin's Story (2001){{Cite news |date=2001-03-13 |title=Kevin's Story, Gaiety Theatre |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/irish-independent-kevins-story-gaiety/171160522/ |access-date=2025-04-26 |work=Irish Independent |pages=36 |via=Newspapers.com}}
- Monkey Puzzle Tree
- Out of Line
- Crabs in a Bucket
- The Bus (2002, with Philip Hardy){{Cite web |title=The Bus (2008) by Maeve Ingoldsby & Philip Hardy |url=https://digital-archive.kilkenny.ie/exhibits/show/barnstorm-theatre-company/item/238 |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=Kilkenny Digital Archive |archive-date=4 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804153501/https://digital-archive.kilkenny.ie/exhibits/show/barnstorm-theatre-company/item/238 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=2002-04-09 |title=Barnstorm's Bus rolls into town |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligo/lifestyle/barnstorms-bus-rolls-into-town/27543149.html |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=Irish Independent |language=en}}
- A Proper Da{{Cite web |date=2021-11-29 |title=A Proper Da by Maeve Ingoldsby |url=https://www.rte.ie/radio/dramaonone/1263847-a-proper-da-by-maeve-ingoldsby |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=RTE Radio |language=en |archive-date=21 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230121054411/https://www.rte.ie/radio/dramaonone/1263847-a-proper-da-by-maeve-ingoldsby |url-status=live }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsI/ingoldsby-maeve.html Maeve Ingoldsby] at the Doollee Playwright's Database
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