Peig Sayers: Labharfad Le Cách = I Will Speak to You All

by Peig Sayers, Bo Almqvist (Editor), Padraig O'healai (Editor)

This book is a celebration of the renowned Irish storyteller Peig Sayers, showing a lighter side to her than previously revealed. For generations of students, Peig Sayer's autobiography was a compulsory text on the Irish Leaving Certificate. But there was a lot more to Peig than tales of poverty and hardship. In this collection of previously unpublished stories, an earthier, funnier, and more dramatic storyteller emerges. Based on RTE and BBC archives, and translated by Ireland's leading experts on Peig, the book also includes two CDs with archived recordings of Peig's storytelling.

312 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2009

About the author

Seanchaí agus dírbheathaisnéisí Éireannach ab ea í Peig Sayers (1873 - 1958).

Tháinig Peig Sayers ar an saol i nDún Chaoin, baile beag i gContae Chiarraí, Éire. Phós sí Pádraig Ó Gaoithín ón mBlascaod Mór, agus d'aistrigh sí ansin leis. Ní raibh léamh ná scríobh aici, ach seanchaí den scoth ab ea í. Ba dual athar di é, nó nuair a bhí sí óg, chluineadh sí na mílte scéalta agus eachtraí á n-insint ag a hathair agus é ag déanamh airneáin le fir an bhaile. Dheachtaigh sí a cuid scéalta do Sheosamh Ó Dálaigh ó Choimisiun Bealoideasa Eireann. Tá cáil uirthi de bharr a dírbheathaisnéise, Peig. B'é a mac, Micheál, a bhreac an scéal síos uaithi, agus foilsíodh an leabhar sa bhliain 1936. Tá an leabhar ar bharr a theanga ag gach duine a thóg scrúdú Gaeilge na hArdteistiméarachta.

Bhí Peig Sayers ina conaí ar an oileán go dtí an bhliain 1953, nuair a tréigeadh na Blascaodaí ar fad. Bhog sí go dtí ospidéal an Daingin. Fuair sí bás ansin sa bhliain 1958, agus tá sí curtha i reilig Dhún Chaoin.

Reviews

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

THis is the wonderful true story of a woman Peg Sayers who
grew up as a poor girl on the Dingle peninsula, then married
a Blasket Island Man. Living there she bore many children
and lived a spartan life on those islands. The story is so
REAL and moving and makes me realize our modern lives are very
spoiled and silly. I am reading it slowly. I bought it at the
Great BLasket Center on the DIngle peninsula last weekend while
we were on holiday. IT is a gorgeous, bleak place. No one lives
on the islands any more, and it is hard to imagine the austere
lives they led without any comforts or medicine. these were tough
people.

[Olga Lalín · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the story, I loved also listening to Peig´s voice and the sound of Gaelic Language.