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. Through this American edition, Peig will reach a new international audience. 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. Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island Peig Sayers Syracuse University Press, Literary Collections - 216 pages 1 Review Reviews aren't verified. 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." ![]() 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 is among the most famous expressions of a late Gaelic Revival genre of personal. 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. Born in 1873 in Baile an Bhiocáire, Dún Chaoin, County Kerry. ![]() Peig Sayers was one of the most renowned storytellers in the Irish tradition. 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. by Peig Sayers See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 15.69 - 16.49 Paperback 17.93 - 18.59 Select Condition Like New Unavailable Very Good 18.59 Good - Acceptable - New 17.93 See All 5 Editions from 3.59 Selected Format: Paperback Condition: New 17.93 Save 2.02 List Price 19. ABOUT THE BOOK Following on from the warm reception to Peig Sayers vol 2 (Níl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word) in autumn 2020, New Island is delighted to re-issue vol 1, first published in 2009.
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