Celtic badass - Big Mary of the songs

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Celtic badass - Big Mary of the songs
What a badass name, The Skye Gaelic bard and Highland Land League hero, Mairi Mhor Nan Oran.
Mairi Mhor Nan Oran was many things; a nurse and midwife, a prisoner, and most notably a Gaelic poet and songstress, but in all of them she was a badass. It was through her work as a Gaelic poet and songstress that she earned her hero status, endearing her to the people of the Highlands and Islands. Due to her being a thick chick, she garnered the name Mairi Mhor Nan Oran, meaning Big Mary of the Songs.
Mairi Mhor was born in Skeabost, on the Isle of Skye in 1821. She was born Mary MacDonald, into a crofting family. Her early life was characterized by the rural and domestic arts typical of her gender and social class, crofting work, waulking wool, making clothes, etc, you know women's work. In her 27th year, she moved to Inverness and married a shoemaker by the name of Isaac MacPherson. They lived happily until around the age of 50 in 1872, Mairi Mhor, whilst engaged in domestic work, was imprisoned for stealing clothes from her mistress. The charge was widely considered to have been trumped up and unjust because even in her domestic capacities she was a vocal critic of the politics of the day.