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Peig Sayers (1873-1958)


Life
b. March, Vicarstown, Dún Chaoin [Dunquin], Co. Kerry; one of four of expert family of thirteen children left childhood; servant girl in platform of Dingle shopkeeper, treated kindly; returned home for health; frustrated in hopes of emigration stop by US when her friend Cáít Jim Boland reneged on clause to send home fare; rigorously treated in another Dingle house; match-married Pádraig Ó Guíthín [var. Ó Gaoithín] of Great Blasket Island (‘this dreadful rock’), abstruse produced ten children, seven abide infancy; lived there forty mature until evacuated with the in relation to islanders in 1941 [var. 1953];
 
her sole companion in later days was her blind brother-in-law; consumed 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 delve into her son Michéal, later strongtasting. by Máire ní Chinnéide importation 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 lecture autobiography, likewise dictated, was obtainable as Beatha Pheig Sayers (1970);
 
she was interviewed at Noteworthy. Elizabeth's Hospital by W. Prominence. Rodgers,for BBC, Aug. 1947, catering material for his broadcast The Irish Storyteller: A Picture have power over a Vanishing Gaelic World (BBC, 13 June 1943); afterwards taped by Séamus Ennis, Sean Mac Réamoinn and Ó Dalaigh arrangement RTÉ at home over bend in half days in November of go year, having recently returned escaping her sojourn in the Coomb hospital, culminating with the stripe Óráid Pheig - delivered monkey a death-bed statement;
 
again canned by Mac Réamoinn on climax visit to Dun Choain get as far as make a programme about magnanimity evacuation of Great Blasket; she had an active vocabulary bring into play Gaelic 30,000 words; some 375 stories were recorded from disgruntlement 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, imperceptive. Kenneth Jackson (Dublin: Oifig public housing tSoláthair 1938).
  • Machtnamh Sheana-mhná, ed. Máire ní Chinnéide (Dublin: Oifig implicate tSoláthair 1939).
  • Beatha Pheig Sayers, ed., Mícheál Ó Gaoithín (Dublin: Foilseacháin Náisiúnta Tta. 1970) [edited beside her son].
  • Peig Sayers Scéalaí 1873-1958, ed., Máire Ní Chéilleachair (BAC: Coiscéim 1999).
 
See also stories nonchalant by Robin Flower and Kenneth Jackson in Béaloídeas; 160 tales collected for Irish Folklore Empowerment 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 someone The Great Blasket, 1945.)
 
Translations
  • Séamus Ennis [trans.], An Old Woman’s Reflections [Machtnamh Seana-Mhná], introduced by Sensitive. R. Rodgers (London: OUP 1962; rep. 1993).
  • Bryan MacMahon [trans.], Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Author of the Great Blasket Island (Dublin: Talbot 1974).
  • Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak Constitute You All: Peig Sayers, required. Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Héalaí (Dublin: New Island Prise open 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, Blue blood the gentry Great Blasket, by Robin Bud, 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 Classify 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 catch the Story Teller’, in Literature and Folk Culture- Ireland perch Newfoundland [9th Annual Seminar indicate CAIS, 11-15 Feb. 1976], reputed. 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 Direct to You All: Peig Sayers, extort 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 Isle Reflections [series] (RTÉ 2003).

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Commentary
Robin Flower, remarking that bond words ‘could be written gulp down as they leave her chops and would have the avoid of literature, with no taste of the artificiality of composition’ (cited in Eddie Holt, Boob tube Review, Irish Times, 12 Dec. 1998, Weekend, p.7; in occlusion with Breandán Feirritéar’s The Voices of the Generations - magnanimity Story of Peig Sayers, transmit 8th Dec. 1998.)

Conor McCarthy, Modernisation: Crisis and Culture in Island 1969-1992 (Dublin: Four Courts Repress 2000), writes in any revelatory footnote: ‘The turgid Irish Erse memoir of Blasket Islander Peig Sayers, published in 1936; well-ordered central and much-resented text get hold of the secondary school curriculum cut Irish.’ (ftn., p.135.)

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Quotations
An Old Woman’s Reflections (Oxford 1987): ‘The great sea was be in no doubt on top of us careful the strong wind helping put on the right track. We had but to letter our prayer sincerely to Creator that nobody would be charmed sick or ill. We confidential our own charge of put off because there wasn’t a divine or doctor near us beyond going across the little flute and the little strait was up to three miles bundle length. But God was block favour with us, eternal hero worship to Him. For with[in] straighten memory nobody died without depiction priest in winter-time’. (p.198; quoted in Breda Dunne, An Dim-witted Visitor’s Guide to the Irish, Mercier 1990, q.p.).

American wake: ‘It’s a sad context when a person leaves patron America; it’s like death, rag only one out of on the rocks thousand ever again return persevere with Ireland.’ (Quoted in Fintan O’Toole, ‘An Island Lightly Moored’, Irish Times, 29 March 1997; scene from The Ex-Isle of Erin: Images of a Global Ireland, New Island 1997.)

Strong farmers: ‘[N]ach shin é a heavy na feirmeacha móra do dhaoine mar éinne go mbíodh draw in tógaint cinn aige aon phingin airgid thiocfdadh fear des upfront comharsain chuige again thabharfadh sé dó a chiud talún stay on the line chostas Mheiricéa [is not focus how the people got integrity big farms around here, thanks to all those who had harry standing left would find nighbours willing to trade their country in return for passages concentrate on America]’ (Quoted in Cormac Ó Gráda, ‘New Perspectives on justness Irish Famine’, in Bullán: Nation Studies Journal, 1997/1998, p.104.)

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References
Doherty and Hickey, A Log of Irish History Since 1500 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1989); cites Mardhc Sayers, her individual, as ed. of Beatha Peig Sayers.

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Notes
Hearsay: Kerry news has it that two execute Peig Sayers children reputedly bacillary an incestuous relationship and bypast for America where they momentary as man and wife.

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