![]() ![]() ![]() It also makes me want to start writing my mother's stories. What a treat! I do wish we could know what happened to the rest of her family so I'll have to look her son Michael up who, it says was a poet. I absolutely loved Peig's stories! It makes me wish I could visit those days, pull up a seat at her fire and hear all the stories from her family and friends. Oh my gosh, this is one time I am so glad I didn't listen to the reviews. I will leave the stories from that island for you to hear through the voice of the great story-teller.more He brother arranged her marriage to a man from one of the Blasket islands. And it was a future that saw major upheaval in Ireland, the seeds of which were sown in the unrest she describes so well. The important issues of the day - memories of the famine that her parents endured and the ethics of stealing food to stay alive, the Land League, evictions, and emigration - are all interwoven into the life of a young girl as she looks to the future. She remembered that theft years later when she was seventeen on her return home after four years in service in Dingle. When she stole a piece of sweet cake from an old woman in a smoke-filled cottage she knew, as she said, that Someone was watching. It is so poignant and emotionally touching to go back to 1877 and read of a little four year old girl who can't wait to get to school so that she can have her own book filled with coloured pictures. It really needs to be read in Irish, using this translation for reference if you need it, and then the distant voice of your Irish identity will come to you from nearly 150 years ago. I loved it when I studied for the Leaving Cert in 1967 and I still love it. The whole bay was as calm as new milk, with little silver spray shimmering on its surface under the brilliant sunshine. There were many thousands of small seagulls some, hovering lightly, were searching for little sprat or other morsels of food.Īt last I grew tired of watching the gulls and I turned my gaze to the south-towards Dingle Bay. Every bird from the stormy petrel to the cormorant, from the sand-snipe to the gannet was there and each variety of bird had its own peculiar call. Dead indeed is the heart from which the balmy air of the sea cannot banish sorrow and grief I began to look away out to sea at the thousands of seabirds flying here and there in search of a bite to eat. ![]() I sat on the bank above the beach where I had a splendid view all around me. There were many thousands of small seagulls If you feel your copyright has not been respected please contact us.Péig Sayers 1873 - 1958 I sat on the bank above the beach where I had a splendid view all around me. RTÉ would like to hear from any copyright owners who are not properly identified here so that the necessary corrections can be made. ![]() RTÉ Archives are committed to respecting the copyright of others and have attempted to source and credit the copyright owners of all material used here. If you wish to licence video or audio clips, still images or text, or would like further guidance please contact us. Any form of reproduction in print, television, video, multimedia, web site or other electronic media or any form of dissemination for commercial or non-commercial use must be licensed by the RTÉ Archives. This material may not be replicated in any form or manner without the prior express permission of RTÉ. Peig Sayers, Children, Emigration, Folklore, Literature, Dingle, County Kerry.Ĭopyright RTÉ. In 2008 to mark the 60th anniversary of her death RTÉ Libraries and Archives restored the 1998 television documentary "Voice of Generations The Story of Peig Sayers" written and directed by Breandán Feiritéar. Voice of Generations The Story of Peig Sayers Drámatú ar an ócáid nuair a scair Peig lena dil-chara Cáit Jim, sliocht as clár faisnéise teilifíse ar bheatha Pheig Sayers.Ī dramatised account of Peig's separation from her childhood friend Cáit Jim in an excerpt from a television documentary about the life of Peig Sayers. ![]()
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