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. 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. 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. User Stories Virtual Session DCMs User Stories session has been designed to. Nicknamed ‘The Poet,’ his lyrical stanzas express his love for the Great Blasket and its nature, describing the beauty of marine life while at the same time lamenting the end of the. As a staff member in Gaelscoil Peig Sayers, youll have access to free. 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. Michel O’Guiheen, son of the ‘queen of Gaelic storytelling’ Peig Sayers, belonged to the last generation of islanders to live on the Great Blasket. laid out as expertly and as calmly as if twelve women had tended him. Peig said of her son Tomas, 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. 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. 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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