![]() Hogan, Dick (1998) ‘A Feminist Peig Sayers Chaffed at Being a Chattel’, The Irish Times, 3 January: 2. Harvey, Clodagh Brennan (1989) ‘Some Irish Women Storytellers and Reflections on the Role of Women in the Storytelling Tradition’, Western Folklore, 48.2, 109–28. ĭeane, Seamus (1997) Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790 (Oxford University Press).įerriter, Diarmaid (2004) The Transformation of Ireland 1900–2000 (London: Profile Books).įoster, John Wilson (1987) Fictions of the Irish Literary Revival (Syracuse University Press). (2007) ‘Re-Reading Peig Sayers: Women’s Autobiography, Social History and Narrative Art’, in Patricia Boyle Haberstroh and Christine St Peter (eds), Opening the Field: Irish Women Texts and Contexts (Cork University Press).ĭaly, Donnachada (2007) ‘Peig’, The Daly Blog. ![]() IV.īradley, Anthony, and Maryann Gialanella Valiulis (1997) Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press).īunreacht na hÉireann - Constitution of Ireland (1937) (Dublin: Government Publications Office).Ĭaball, John (1987 ) The Singing Swordsman (Dublin: The Children’s Press).Ĭollins, Barry, and Patrick Hanafin (2001) ‘Mothers, Maidens and the Myth of Origins in the Irish Constitution’, Law and Critique, 12.1, 53–73.Ĭoogan, Tim Pat (1993) De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow (London: Arrow Books).Ĭoughlan, Patricia (1998) ‘Peig Sayers and Feminism’, Letters, The Irish Times, 14 April. Wills (eds), The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Cork University Press), vol. IV.īourke, Angela and Patricia Lysaght (2002) ‘Life Stories’, in A. (2002b) ‘Spirituality and Religion in Oral Tradition’, in A. (n.d.) ‘Peig Sayers Problem Page’.īourke, Angela (1997) ‘Language, Stories, Healing’, in Bradley and Valiulis. As Eoin McKiernan, President of the Irish American Cultural Institute, notesin his introduction, Peig has the quotquality of honesty and sincerity, of life lived at the bone.quotLong loved in Ireland, this autobiography will now be seen for what it truly is12one of the greatheart-cries of the Irish people.Almqvist, Bo (1990) ‘The Mysterious Micheál Ó Gaoithin, Boccaccio and the Blasket Tradition’, Béaloideas, 58, 75–140.Īnon. Through this American edition, Peig will reach a newinternational audience. She is buried ashort distance from the townland where she was born, above the sea on the Dingle Peninsula,within sight of the Great Blasket Island. laid out as expertly and as calmlyas if twelve women had tended him.quot Her own farewell to life had the same clear-eyedsimplicity: quotPeople will yet walk into the graveyard where I'll be lying I'll be stretched out quietlyand the old world will have vanished.quot Peig died in 1958, when she was 85. ![]() Peig said of herson Tom#225, who was killed in a fall from a clifftop: quotInstead of his body being out in thebroad ocean, there he was on the smooth detached stone. ![]() It reveals with fidelity, humor, and poignancy a woman's lifein a bleak world where survival itself was a triumph and death as familiar as life. Here is astory as unforgettable as it is simple. Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of theGreat Blasket Island (Irish Studies)Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc.Copy Link in Description For Download This Bookexample link bellow is one of the classics of modern Gaelic literature12the autobiography of Peig Sayers, aremarkable 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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