The French linguist and Celtic scholar Marie-Louise Sjoestedt (1900-1940) visited Ireland many times during the 1920s and 1930s. She studied the Irish language at universities in France and Ireland and lived with native speakers in Ireland to better understand it. She lectured about Irish in France and Ireland and also wrote books and academic articles about it.
Photograph of Marie-Louise Sjoestedt. Image source.
One
of the first times I came across her was at an AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish Studies) conference in Mary
Immaculate College in Limerick when a lectured from the Irish department there gave a paper about her links to the Irish language.
I thought that her story was an interesting one and decided to look into it a little further. I did some research and have just written a short article on
the RTÉ Brainstorm website about Sjoestedt's connection to Ireland, the
Irish language and Celtic mythology. Read it here.
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