by Robert Kanigel Front cover for the book Peig by Peig Sayers Peig. As Eoin McKiernan, President of the Irish American Cultural Institute, notes in his introduction, Peig has the "quality of honesty and sincerity, of life lived at the bone." Long loved in Ireland, this autobiography will now be seen for what it truly is-one of the great heart-cries of the Irish people. Front cover for the book On an Irish Island by Robert Kanigel. Through this American edition, Peig will reach a new international audience. Volume 3 of Ceiliradh an Bhlascaoid, ISSN 1393-6026 Author, Peig Sayers Publisher, Coiscim. She is buried a short distance from the townland where she was born, above the sea on the Dingle Peninsula, within sight of the Great Blasket Island. Their interest in that community and its oral literature led to a number of island autobiographies, the best known being Peig, The Islandman and Twenty Years A. Bibliographic information Title, Peig Sayers Scala, 1873-1958. laid out as expertly and as calmly as if twelve women had tended him." Her own farewell to life had the same clear-eyed simplicity: "People will yet walk into the graveyard where I'll be lying I'll be stretched out quietly and the old world will have vanished." Students and scholars of the Irish language came from far and wide to. She was born in the parish of Dunquin in Kerry and married into a neighbouring island, the Great Blasket, where she spent most of her life. Peig said of her son Tom's, who was killed in a fall from a clifftop: "Instead of his body being out in the broad ocean, there he was on the smooth detached stone. Peig Sayers was ‘the Queen, of Gaelic story-tellers’. Irish Studies 8.0 X 5.5 X 0.6 inches 216 pages. It reveals with fidelity, humor, and poignancy a woman's life in a bleak world where survival itself was a triumph and death as familiar as life. PEIG The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island. Here is a story as unforgettable as it is simple. Here is one of the classics of modern Gaelic literature-the 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.
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