She recalls the events of her life and her simple philosophy. ![]() 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. In her old age, Peig Sayers, recounted her life to her son who recorded the tale in this book. 1 1983 by Peig Sayers (Author) 123 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 45.31 3 Used from 27.67 Paperback 35.60 15 Used from 7.19 5 New from 32. 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." An important part of Ireland's oral heritage, as well as a monument to an astonishing personality.- 'Eire Ireland' Near classic status.- 'Choice' Peig was brought up on the mainland, where she spent a life of servitude and hardship. 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. A fine, heartwarming book.- 'Publishers Weekly' Her story is very Irish indeed, but so close to earth as to be universal. ![]() 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. 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. ![]() 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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