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Peig Sayers (1873-1958)


Life
b. March, Vicarstown, Dún Chaoin [Dunquin], Co. Kerry; one of four of a family of thirteen children surviving childhood; servant girl in house of Dingle shopkeeper, treated kindly; returned home for health; disappointed in hopes of emigration to US when her friend Cáít Jim Boland reneged on promise to send home fare; harshly treated in another Dingle house; match-married Pádraig Ó Guíthín [var.

Peig sayers biography of william hill

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  • Ó Gaoithín] of Great Blasket Island (‘this dreadful rock’), and produced ten children, seven surviving infancy; lived there forty years until evacuated with the other islanders in 1941 [var. 1953];

     
    her sole companion in later years was her blind brother-in-law; possessed a store of folklore incl.

    375 wonder-tales which were recorded by Seosamh Ó Dalaigh [Joe Daly] [of the Folklore Commission; she dictated her autobiography to her son Michéal, later ed. by M&aacu