By Greg Fieg
Maren Corkery, 12, of Oneonta took gold and silver medallions in the recent Gov. Thomas Dongan Feis regional competition at the state capitol in Albany, competing with more than two hundred other participants. She took the gold medallion in the slip jig and the silver in the treble jig.
Maren has Irish culture on both sides of her family with the Corkerys hailing from County Cork in the Republic of Ireland and the Shields/Kenraid families who trace their heritage to the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea. She became interested in Irish dance after being introduced to it by her good friend Mary Martha Kennedy from the village of Mt.Vision. The two girls came to know each other through the local home-schooling organization.
Maren is the granddaughter of Greg Fieg, great-granddaughter of the late Frank Fieg and great-great-granddaughter of Lothar and Florence Fieg.
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