Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island

Peig Sayers

Syracuse University Press, Oct 1, 1974 - Biography & Autobiography - 216 pages

A reprint of the Syracuse University Press edition of 1974.

Contents

• The Days of My Youth: 13
• Affairs of Home and School: 23
• am a Cause of Strife: 31
• Heard Stories in My Young Days: 38
• The Day of the Races: 48
• The Same Old Story Ever and Always: 60
• The New Life: 67
• Christmastide: 73
• Shrovetide Doings: 84
• Exciting Stories in Dingle: 94
• More Adventures: 102
• Return to My People: 110
• Séamas who was called Pléasc: 118
• A Feast an Escort and a Farewell Forever: 127
• In Service again: 133
• My Last Days in Service: 140
• Match and Marriage: 150
• A New and Different World: 157
• The Birth of My First Child: 164
• Comfort and Grief: 173
• Scattering and Sorrow: 180
• Life Alone and Lonely: 188
• Fireside Tales: 194
• Adventures of Mine: 201
• The Last Chapter: 210

About the author

Bryan MacMahon, a fluent Irish speaker, looked on this translation of Peig as a labor of love. Novelist, folklorist, university lecturer, balladeer, and poet he has had three of his plays produced by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and his fiction has received critical acclaim and wide translation.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island; Irish Studies
• Author: Peig Sayers
• Translated by: Bryan MacMahon
• Edition: illustrated, reissue
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 1974
• ISBN: 0815602588, 9780815602583
• Length: 216 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Women; History / Europe / Ireland