As Eoin McKiernan, President of the Irish American Cultural Institute, notes in his introduction, Peig has the "quality of honesty and sincerity, of life lived at the bone." Long loved in Ireland, this autobiography will now be seen for what it truly is-one of the great heart-cries of the Irish people. ![]() ![]() Through this American edition, Peig will reach a new international audience. Book Synopsis Here is one of the classics of modern Gaelic literature-the autobiography of Peig Sayers, a remarkable woman who lived forty years at the. She is buried a short distance from the townland where she was born, above the sea on the Dingle Peninsula, within sight of the Great Blasket Island. Her dismal childhood, her schooling in Ireland, her marriage. The book retraces much of Peig Sayers life. laid out as expertly and as calmly as if twelve women had tended him." Her own farewell to life had the same clear-eyed simplicity: "People will yet walk into the graveyard where I'll be lying I'll be stretched out quietly and the old world will have vanished." A memoir of an ordinary woman in extraordinary times. It shows what people did to make a living, entertainment, customs of birth, death, marriage, religion and much more. Peig said of her son Tom's, who was killed in a fall from a clifftop: "Instead of his body being out in the broad ocean, there he was on the smooth detached stone. Peig's autobiography gives a fantastic insight into the lives of ordinary people in rural Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th century, in this case Na Blascaoda - the Blascket Islands. It reveals with fidelity, humor, and poignancy a woman's life in a bleak world where survival itself was a triumph and death as familiar as life. ![]() Here is a story as unforgettable as it is simple. Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island (Irish Studies) May 1991, Syracuse University Press Paperback in English. Sayers, Peig (MacMahon, transl.) Published by Syracuse U. As Eoin McKiernan, President of the Irish American Cultural Institute, notes in his introduction, Peig has the “quality of honesty and sincerity, of life lived at the bone.” Long loved in Ireland, this autobiography will now be seen for what it truly is-one of the great heart-cries of the Irish people.Here is one of the classics of modern Gaelic literature-the autobiography of Peig Sayers, a remarkable woman who lived forty years at the edge of survival on barren Great Blasket Island, and who came to be recognized as one of the last of Ireland's traditional storytellers. Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island. Through this American edition, Peig will reach a new international audience. Born Mirad (Margaret) Sayers in Vicarstown, Dunquin, County Kerry, Ireland in March 1873 (exact date unknown. laid out as expertly and as calmly as if twelve women had tended him.” Her own farewell to life had the same clear-eyed simplicity: “People will yet walk into the graveyard where I’ll be lying I’ll be stretched out quietly and the old world will have vanished.” Sayers, Peig (18731958)Irish storyteller. ![]() Peig said of her son Tomás, who was killed in a fall from a clifftop: “Instead of his body being out in the broad ocean, there he was on the smooth detached stone. It reveals with fidelity, humor, and poignancy a woman’s life in a bleak world where survival itself was a triumph and death as familiar as life. Peig was a master storyteller and here we see fine use of colloquial. Here is a story as unforgettable as it is simple. This is an autobiographical account of Peigs life as told by her to her son Mchel. Talbot Press, 1974 - Blasket Islands (Ireland) - 212 pages. Here is one of the classics of modern Gaelic literature-the autobiography of Peig Sayers, a remarkable woman who lived forty years at the edge of survival on barren Great Blasket Island, and who came to be recognized as one of the last of Ireland’s traditional storytellers. Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island.
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