Peig sayers biography of william hill
Peig: the autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket ...!
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 hillÓ 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 |