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1. Peig sayers house series#
2. Peig sayers house tv#

Tom Brosnan, author of The Brosnan Gathering, remarked that, despite Peig’s international literary fame, little seems to be known about her mother, and her Castleisland forebears appear something of a mystery. It is generally accepted that Margaret Brosnan was from Castleisland. 1 It contains an interesting article about Blasket Island writer, Peig Sayers, whose mother was Margaret (Peig) Brosnan. Hearsay: Kerry hearsay has it that two of Peig Sayers children reputedly formed an incestuous relationship and departed for America where they lived as man and wife.A Brosnan Gathering is the title of a book produced in 2013. Strong farmers: ‘ ach shin é a thug na feirmeacha móra do dhaoine mar éinne go mbíodh an tógaint cinn aige aon phingin airgid thiocfdadh fear des na comharsain chuige again thabharfadh sé dó a chiud talún ar chostas Mheiricéa ’ (Quoted in Cormac Ó Gráda, ‘New Perspectives on the Irish Famine’, in Bullán: Irish Studies Journal, 1997/1998, p.104.)ĭoherty and Hickey, A Chronology of Irish History Since 1500 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1989) cites Mardhc Sayers, her son, as ed. (p.198 quoted in Breda Dunne, An Intelligent Visitor’s Guide to the Irish, Mercier 1990, q.p.).Īmerican wake: ‘It’s a sad occasion when a person leaves for America it’s like death, for only one out of a thousand ever again return to Ireland.’ (Quoted in Fintan O’Toole, √n Island Lightly Moored’, Irish Times, 29 March 1997 extract from The Ex-Isle of Erin: Images of a Global Ireland, New Island 1997.) For with my memory nobody died without the priest in winter-time’. But God was in favour with us, eternal praise to Him. We had our own charge of that because there wasn’t a priest or doctor near us without going across the little strait and the little strait was up to three miles in length. We had but to send our prayer sincerely to God that nobody would be taken sick or ill. 1998.)Ĭonor McCarthy, Modernisation: Crisis and Culture in Ireland 1969-1992 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), writes in any explanatory footnote: ‘The turgid Irish Gaelic memoir of Blasket Islander Peig Sayers, published in 1936 a central and much-resented text on the secondary school curriculum in Irish.’ (ftn., p.135.)Īn Old Woman’s Reflections (Oxford 1987): ‘The great sea was coming on top of us and the strong wind helping it. 1998, Weekend, p.7 in connection with Breandán Feirritéar’s The Voices of the Generations - the Story of Peig Sayers, transmitted 8th Dec.

Peig sayers house tv#

Robin Flower, remarking that her words ‘could be written down as they leave her lips and would have the effect of literature, with no savour of the artificiality of composition’ (cited in Eddie Holt, TV Review, Irish Times, 12 Dec. See also Cathal Póirtéir, Blasket Island Reflections (RTÉ 2003). Breandan Feiritéir, Slán an Scéalaí: Scéal Pheig Sayers (RTE/G4 1998).See also Marian Broderick, Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives in Irish History (Dublin: O∫rien Press 2001). Mairin Nic Eoin, review of Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak To You All: Peig Sayers, in The Irish Times (23 Jan.

Alison Feder & Bernice Schrank (Memorial University of Newfoundland 1977), pp.83-109 Bryan MacMahon, ‘Peig Sayers and the Vernacular of the Story Teller’, in Literature and Folk Culture - Ireland and Newfoundland, ed.Tim Enright, trans., Mícheál O’Guiheen, A Pity Youth Does Not Last (OUP q.d.)

Peig sayers house series#

Note: Series consists of 7 Blasket Island books title from container.

See also Memoirs of the Great Blasket Island, 3 vols.

Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Héalaí (Dublin: New Island Press 2010), 312pp.