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Mary Bryne

Birth: July 2, 1880, Dublin, Ireland
Death: January 19, 1951, Dublin, Ireland

Mary Elizabeth Bryne (Maire ni Bhroin) translated "Be Thou My Vision" from the anonymous eighth-century Irish poem "Rob tu mo bhoile, a Comdi cirde." Her prose was included in "Erin," Journal of the School of Irish Learning, 1905.

Mary was born in Dublin during 1880. She graduated from the University of Ireland in 1905 and then worked for the Board of Intermediate Education. During her career, Bryne helped compile the Catalog of the Royal Irish Academy and wrote a treatise on England in the Age of Chaucer. She also contributed to both the Old and Mid-Irish Dictionary and the Dictionary of the Irish Language.