Including a link to the original audio material, now we can listen to Peig’s own voice as she tells us her stories and meet her in a way never possible before. A number of these were school teachers from throughout Ireland who had. Using original sound recordings from the BBC and RTÉ Archives, this book features transcriptions of Peig’s own speech, annotated and translated by Professor Bo Almqvist and Dr Pádraig Ó Héalaí. traditional storytellers, including Peig Sayers, the Great Blasket, Co. As a result they often became the object of satire, such as Flann O’Brien’s ‘An Béal Bocht’, and in the school book version that many generations of students were confronted with, Peig’s recollections are often the cause of unhappy memories. And when you think of it, it must be an interesting. A friend, who has a more refined sensibility and openness to Irish culture, thinks Peig’s book is fascinating. Peig Sayers (1873-1958) bored the arse off us at school. Peig’s recollections were never written down but dictated to others, and in the process often edited or shortened. Here is one of the classics of modern Gaelic literaturethe 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 Sayers bored the arse off us at school, but shes worth remembering, says Colette Sheridan. Born in 1873 in Baile an Bhiocáire, Dún Chaoin, County Kerry, Peig married into the Great Blasket where her fame as a storyteller began. In 1892, she married Pdraig Guithn from Great Blasket Island where she then moved, and there raised her family. Peig Sayers was one of the most renowned storytellers in the Irish tradition. Born Mirad Sayers in Vicarstown, Dn Chaoin, County Kerry, Ireland, the daughter of Margaret Ni Bhrosnachain (Brosnan) and Toms Sayers. Following on from the warm reception to Peig Sayers vol 2 (Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word) in autumn 2020, New Island is delighted to re-issue vol 1, first published in 2009.
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