Author: Peig SayersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blasket Islands (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
An Old Woman's Reflections
Author: Peig SayersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blasket Islands (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
An Old Woman's Reflections
Author: Peig SayersPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192812391
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Known affectionately as "the Queen of Gaelic Storytellers," Peig Sayers here offers reminiscences of the daily events that made up her life (such as seal catching, collecting turf for roofs, preparing for a funeral wake) alongside the tragedies of drownings at sea, pilgrimages, and the news of the 1916 revolution in Dublin City. It is a unique record of an essential part of the oral Gaelic tradition.
An Old Woman’s Reflections
Author: Peig SayersPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789122376
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Peig Sayers was ‘the Queen, of Gaelic story-tellers’. 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. Students and scholars of the Irish language came from far and wide to visit her. She was, as Robin Flower wrote in The Western Island, ‘a natural orator, with so keen a sense of the turn of phrase and the lifting rhythm appropriate to Irish that her words could be written down as they leave her lips, and they would have the effect of literature with no savour of the artificiality of composition’. Her Reflections are a collection of her fireside stories, most of them tales of her friends and neighbours on the Great Blasket, the island that also produced Maurice O’Sullivan’s Twenty Tears A-Growing and Tόmas ό Crohan’s The Islandman.
Author: Peig Sayers