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. 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. 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. 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." Buy a used copy of Peig : The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island book by Bryan MacMahon, Peig Sayers. Peig Sayerss Featured Books Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island Peig: The Autobiography of. 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. In her old age, Peig Sayers, the Queen of Gaelic storytellers, recounted her life to her son, who recorded the tale in this book. 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 Sayers: NÃl Deireadh Ráite / Not the Final Word No Binding Published by New Island Books, 2020. Title, Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island Author, Peig Sayers Translated by, Bryan MacMahon Illustrated by, Catriona OConnor. Storytelling kept alive the myths, legends, and history of the Blasket Islands, which are three miles off Irelands Dingle Peninsula. 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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