Sayers is most famous for her autobiography Peig (ISBN 0-8156-0258-8), but also for the folklore and stories which were recorded in Machnamh Seanmhná (An Old Woman's Reflections, ISBN 978-0-19-281239-1). The books were not written down by Peig, but were dictated to others.

2024年4月23日 · Despite having to leave school at the age of twelve to work as a servant, Peig Sayers became one of the most famous storytellers in the Irish language. Peig first hoped to move to America and join her friends and family there who had already become a …

2023年4月24日 · How could such a fantastic story be in the bleak, joyless book we’ve been hearing about for decades? And how could it have put people off Irish for the rest of their lives?

Don't expect a modern expose style autobiography - it's more a set of short stories about Sayers' life and her neighbors' lives. The title is also a little misleading - she doesn't actually get to the Blasket Island until halfway through the book.

2021年3月1日 · Peig Sayers’s autobiography has not been on the compulsory Leaving Certificate Irish curriculum since 1995, yet it casts a long shadow over the language. It famously begins …

2020年12月20日 · “Not the Final Word” as it is subtitled is a collection of Peig’s tales and social history, recorded by some of the leading lights of the Irish Folklore Commission, itself a remarkable movement, in...

2021年3月11日 · Here we find that the piety and sainthood ascribed to Peig Sayers is no reflection on the real person - the gifted storyteller alluded to earlier emerged in over 350 stories told to various ...

On this day in 1873, Peig Sayers was christened. Before Peig became a textbook, a character upon which those who failed to learn Irish could pin their disappointment, she was a renowned...