Maeve (Irish name)

Maeve, Irish Gaelic female given name.

It was spelled Medb in Old Irish (pronounced [mɛðv]), Meḋḃ, Meaḋḃ in Middle Irish, Meadhbh in early modern Irish ([mɛɣv]), and is now spelled Méabh ([mʲeːv]) or Medbh in reformed modern Irish. It is usually Anglicised as Maeve (/ˈmeɪv/), with variants Maev or Maive.

Bearers of the name

• Medb, Queen of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.
• Medb ingen Indrechtach mac Muiredaig, Princess of Connacht, fl. 800.
• Medbh Ní Gilla Fhinnein, died 1441.
• Medbh Níc Uidhir, died 1502.
• Medbh Ní Chonchubhair, died 1555.
• Medbh Ní Dhomhnaill, Princess of Tír Chonaill, died 1577.
• Medbh Ní Conchobhair Sligigh, died 1582.
• Medbh Ní Concobair Duinn, died 1582.
• Maeve Brennan, Irish short story writer and journalist, mainly for The New Yorker magazine. (1917–1993)
• Maeve Binchy, Irish novelist, newspaper columnist and speaker, born 1940.
• Maeve Leakey, paleontologist, born 1942.

External links

• http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/Meadhbh.shtml

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