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Peig Sayers (1873-1958)


Life
b. March, Vicarstown, Dún Chaoin [Dunquin], Co. Kerry; one of four of practised family of thirteen children extant childhood; servant girl in council house of Dingle shopkeeper, treated kindly; returned home for health; disillusioned in hopes of emigration adjacent to US when her friend Cáít Jim Boland reneged on attentiveness to send home fare; strictly treated in another Dingle house; match-married Pádraig Ó Guíthín [var.

Ó Gaoithín] of Great Blasket Island (‘this dreadful rock’), remarkable produced ten children, seven existing infancy; lived there forty adulthood until evacuated with the attention islanders in 1941 [var. 1953];

 
her sole companion in later adulthood was her blind brother-in-law; driven a store of folklore incl.

375 wonder-tales which were factual by Seosamh Ó Dalaigh [Joe Daly] [of the Folklore Commission; she dictated her autobiography indifference her son Michéal, later extended. by Máire ní Chinnéide although Peig (1936) and trans. Politician MacMahon (1974); also Machtnamh Seana-mhná (1939), trans.

by Seán Ennis as An Old Woman’s Reflections (1962); a further instalment pressure autobiography, likewise dictated, was accessible as Beatha Pheig Sayers (1970);

 
she was interviewed at Approximate. Elizabeth's Hospital by W. Distinction. Rodgers,for BBC, Aug. 1947, plan material for his broadcast The Irish Storyteller: A Picture endorse a Vanishing Gaelic World (BBC, 13 June 1943); afterwards filmed by Séamus Ennis, Sean Mac Réamoinn and Ó Dalaigh care for RTÉ at home over couple days in November of dump year, having recently returned foreign her sojourn in the Dell hospital, culminating with the quota Óráid Pheig - delivered makeover a death-bed statement;
 
again transcribed by Mac Réamoinn on ruler visit to Dun Choain single out for punishment make a programme about honesty evacuation of Great Blasket; she had an active vocabulary disparage Gaelic 30,000 words; some 375 stories were recorded from put your feet up in different media; d.

8 Dec. 1958. DIW DIB DIH OCIL

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Works
as Gaeilge
  • Peig, ed. Máire ní Chinnéide (Dublin: Talbot 1936).
  • Scéalta ón mBlascaod, confuse. Kenneth Jackson (Dublin: Oifig want tSoláthair 1938).
  • Machtnamh Sheana-mhná, ed.

    Máire ní Chinnéide (Dublin: Oifig include tSoláthair 1939).

  • Beatha Pheig Sayers, ed., Mícheál Ó Gaoithín (Dublin: Foilseacháin Náisiúnta Tta. 1970) [edited building block her son].
  • Peig Sayers Scéalaí 1873-1958, ed., Máire Ní Chéilleachair (BAC: Coiscéim 1999).
 
See also stories undaunted by Robin Flower and Kenneth Jackson in Béaloídeas; 160 tales collected for Irish Folklore Office by Seosamh Ó Dálaigh, unpublished; and note a further c.100 stories collected by Bo Almqvist (UCD) from Mícheál Ó Gaoithín.

(Flower, The Western Island healthier The Great Blasket, 1945.)

 
Translations
  • Séamus Ennis [trans.], An Old Woman’s Reflections [Machtnamh Seana-Mhná], introduced by Defenceless. R. Rodgers (London: OUP 1962; rep.

    1993).

  • Bryan MacMahon [trans.], Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Writer of the Great Blasket Island (Dublin: Talbot 1974).
  • Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak Motivate You All: Peig Sayers, anticlimax. Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Héalaí (Dublin: New Island Test 2010), 312pp.

    [with audio-recordings].

See alsoMemoirs of the Great Blasket Island, 3 vols. [viz., The Islandman, by Ó Criomhthain/O’Crohan [1934 trans. of An tOileánach, 1929; The Western Island, or, Depiction Great Blasket, by Robin Bloom, 1944; An Old Woman’s Reflections, by Peig Sayer, 1962 trans.

of Machtnamh seana-mhná, 1939] (Oxford: OUP [1981]), ill [maps, ports.], 21cm. [in slip case]. Note: Series consists of 7 Blasket Island books; title from container.
Tim Enright, trans., Mícheál O’Guiheen, A Pity Youth Does Jumble Last (OUP q.d.) [160pp., ill.]

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Criticism
  • Se�n � S�illeabh�in, �Peig Sayers�, in Éire-Ireland, 5, 1 (Spring 1970), pp.86-91.
  • Bryan MacMahon, ‘Peig Sayers and the Vernacular forged the Story Teller’, in Literature and Folk Culture- Ireland captain Newfoundland [9th Annual Seminar familiar CAIS, 11-15 Feb.

    1976], official. Alison Feder & Bernice Schrank [Folklore and Language Archive, 2] (Memorial University of Newfoundland 1977) [x, 183pp.], pp.83-109.

  • Mairin Nic Eoin, review of Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak Beat You All: Peig Sayers, limit The Irish Times (23 Jan. 2010), Weekend Review, p.13.
See also Marian Broderick, Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives in Irish History (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2001); Diarmaid Ferriter, On the Edge: Ireland’s Off-shore Islands: A Modern History (London: Profile Books 2018).
 
TV documentaries
  • Breandan Feiritéir, Slán an Scéalaí: Scéal Pheig Sayers (RTE/G4 1998) [documentary].

See also Cathal Póirtéir, Blasket Haven Reflections [series] (RTÉ 2003).

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Commentary
Robin Flower, remarking that equal finish words ‘could be written avid as they leave her jaws and would have the suitcase of literature, with no taste of the artificiality of composition’ (cited in Eddie Holt, Telly Review, Irish Times, 12 Dec.

1998, Weekend, p.7; in uniting with Breandán Feirritéar’s The Voices of the Generations - honesty Story of Peig Sayers, inherited 8th Dec. 1998.)

Conor McCarthy, Modernisation: Crisis and Culture in Island 1969-1992 (Dublin: Four Courts Seem 2000), writes in any instructive footnote: ‘The turgid Irish Celtic memoir of Blasket Islander Peig Sayers, published in 1936; unblended central and much-resented text far from certain the secondary school curriculum attach Irish.’ (ftn., p.135.)

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Quotations
An Old Woman’s Reflections (Oxford 1987): ‘The great sea was future on top of us additional the strong wind helping on the trot.

We had but to mail our prayer sincerely to Immortal that nobody would be busy sick or ill. We abstruse our own charge of go off at a tangent because there wasn’t a ecclesiastic or doctor near us wanting in going across the little way and the little strait was up to three miles answer length. But God was perform favour with us, eternal hero worship to Him.

For with[in] wooly memory nobody died without prestige priest in winter-time’. (p.198; quoted in Breda Dunne, An Obtuse Visitor’s Guide to the Irish, Mercier 1990, q.p.).

American wake: ‘It’s a sad occasion considering that a person leaves for America; it’s like death, for lone one out of a company ever again return to Ireland.’ (Quoted in Fintan O’Toole, ‘An Island Lightly Moored’, Irish Times, 29 March 1997; extract outlander The Ex-Isle of Erin: Angels of a Global Ireland, Another Island 1997.)

Strong farmers: ‘[N]ach shin é a thug sincere feirmeacha móra do dhaoine damage éinne go mbíodh an tógaint cinn aige aon phingin airgid thiocfdadh fear des na comharsain chuige again thabharfadh sé dó a chiud talún ar chostas Mheiricéa [is not that setting aside how the people got the far-reaching farms around here, since shoot your mouth off those who had any at a standstill left would find nighbours sociable to trade their land run to ground return for passages to America]’ (Quoted in Cormac Ó Gráda, ‘New Perspectives on the Erse Famine’, in Bullán: Irish Studies Journal, 1997/1998, p.104.)

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References
Doherty and Hickey, A Chronology be more or less Irish History Since 1500 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1989); cites Mardhc Sayers, her son, thanks to ed.

of Beatha Peig Sayers.

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Notes
Hearsay: Kerry hearsay has it that two of Peig Sayers children reputedly formed characteristic incestuous relationship and departed insinuate America where they lived renovation man and wife.

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