Peig sayers stories with holes
Peig English Version
by Bryan MacMahon
€ 17.95
ISBN: 9780861674404
The autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Islands. Peig is a special book in that it was written by a woman and gives the reader a rare insight into the hard life that a woman endures in the final years of the 19th Century and the early years of the 20th Century. The book is written in simple, rich and natural Irish in which there is a mixture of common speech and folklore Peig was herself an excellent storyteller and there is an abundance of stories, oral tradition, superstitions and prayers. This book is both a social and personal chronicle of ordinary life on the Great Blasket island told in pure Irish and seen through the eyes of a brave, intuitive woman.
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New exhibition looks to rejuvenate the image of Peig Sayers
IT CAN BE a blessing and a curse to be featured on the Leaving Cert syllabus – for years afterwards, students might remember your work as a source of frustration.
Of course, you could also be remembered fondly as the one poet or writer whose words are still recited by people decades on.
But it’s arguable that the storyteller and seanchaí, Peig Sayers, who died in 1958, was one of those whose appearance on the Irish syllabus left her much maligned by many of those who studied her.
Even when this journalist was in school, a few years after Sayers’ book Peig was removed from the syllabus, the ghost of her reputation remained. Sighs and groans would accompany any mention of that book.
But, as anyone who’s looked beyond Peig the book will know, there was a huge amount to Sayers that her Leaving Cert reputation obscured. Though born in Co Kerry, Sayers married a Great Blasket Island native Pádraig Ó Guithín at the age of 19 and moved to the island. Her own father was a storyteller, and clearly Sayers picked up that gift too.
Now a new exhibition – Into the Island – at the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), which will run until February 2023, aims to reinvigorate interest in Sayers’ work, as well as shine a light on the recordings of the Folklore Commission, which captured the stories of Irish people in the first half of the twentieth century.
Simon O’Connor of MoLI told The Journal: “We wanted to present an exhibition on Peig for years, since before the museum opened – you could say Peig was a glint in our eye.”
MoLI opened in 2019, and is a partnership between the National Library of Ireland and University College Dublin, and tells the story of Irish literature right up to today.
Blasket storytellers
With the Peig Sayers exhibition, they looked not just at her work but the Blasket storytelling tradition itself.
Visiting Peig’s story made O’Connor and his colleagues reflect on Peig’s po Out of stock Out of stock Product ID: 50018ISBN: 9781848407671Categories: Folklore, Non-fiction, BooksTag: Edited by Bo Almqvist / Pádraig Ó Héalaí With 2 CDs In January 1952, six years before she died, the celebrated Irish storyteller Peig Sayers was interviewed by a team from the Irish Folklore Commission in St Anne’s Hospital, Dublin. She was more than happy to be recorded, and pleased to be visited by old friends, all of whom spoke fluent Kerry Irish. Publisher: New Island Books | Paperback | ISBN 9781848407671 | Pages 327 Peig Sayers – Níl Deireadh Ráite (le 2 CD)
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