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    Máiréad "Peig" Sayers (/ˌpɛɡ ˈseɪərz/; 29 March 1873 – 8 December 1958) was an Irish author and seanchaí (pronounced [ˈʃan̪ˠəxiː] or [ʃan̪ˠəˈxiː]) born...
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    is dramatic cliff scenery, with a view of the Blasket Islands, where Peig Sayers lived. A museum in the village tells the story of the Blaskets and the...
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    summer of 1934, Máire Bean Nic Gearailt as she was then, who had known Peig Sayers, put the idea into the old woman's head to write a memoir. According...
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    Irish, exemplified by the influential works of Blasket Islanders such as Peig Sayers, Muiris Ó Súilleabháin and Tomás Ó Criomhthain. Kerry is the fifth largest...
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  • and his works include an English translation of Peig, the Irish-language autobiography of Peig Sayers. MacMahon was born on 29 September 1909 to parents...
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    (Island cross-talk) by Tomás Ó Criomhthain, Peig and Machnamh Seanamhná (An Old Woman's Reflections) by Peig Sayers, Fiche Blian ag Fás (Twenty Years A-Growing)...
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  • sessions are not as common now as they were in the past. In her book Peig, Peig Sayers notes that when she was young they often attended sessions at people's...
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    the old village. The home of Muiris Ó Súilleabháin is now in ruins but Peig Sayers' second home on the island has been restored. The home of Tomás Ó Criomhthain...
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    from the west coast, exemplified by the work of Tomás Ó Criomhthain and Peig Sayers. Máiréad Ní Ghráda wrote numerous successful plays often influenced by...
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    release of Muiris Ó Súilleabháin's Fiche Bliain ag Fás in 1933 and Peig Sayers' Peig in 1936. Allagar na hInise, ISBN 1-85791-131-8 (in Irish) Allagar...
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    sin agus an Béarla a bhí 'n-a mbéalaibh féin. Peig Sayers was illiterate, but her autobiography, Peig, is also in Munster dialect and rapidly became...
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  • Marguerite Sayers, BE CEng FIEI, President for Engineers Ireland Mark Sayers, Computer hacker Michael Sayers, Irish poet and author Peig Sayers, Irish author...
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    Feiritéar, Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha, Cáit Feiritéar, and Peig Sayers among others. This is the westernmost part of Ireland, and the village...
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  • Criomhthain's autobiography An t-Oileánach (The Islandman), or Peig Sayers' autobiography Peig, which recounts her life, especially the latter half, as a...
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    Moore, George Jean Nathan, Seumas O'Sullivan, Elliot Paul, Máiréad "Peig" Sayers, Robert W. Service, John Collings Squire, Marie Stopes, Ralph Waldo Trine...
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  • and said a few words). At the conclusion Manchán visits the grave of Peig Sayers and reads one of her passages aloud. The second series comprised a total...
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    Ripp" 2005 Revelations Mother Francine Miniseries 2007 Paddywhackery Peig Sayers Main cast Nominated–Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actress...
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  • itself and via internet search databases. Irish language Irish folklore Peig Sayers Éamon a Búrc Kevin Danaher Citations Almqvist (1977–1979), p. 8. Almqvist...
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  • culture and heritage of the Great Blasket Island. His 1958 portrait of Peig Sayers is a part of the archive of The Blasket Foundation, dedicated to the...
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  • Petrescu-Comnen, Romanian social scientist, historian and poet (born 1881) Peig Sayers (Máiréad Ó Gaoithín), Irish seanchaí (traditional storyteller, born 1873)...
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  • McKibbin, businessman and Ulster Unionist Party MP (born 1892) 8 December – Peig Sayers (Máiréad Ó Gaoithín), seanachaí (traditional storyteller) (born 1873)...
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  • a brief period, during which she composed her Fifth String Quartet. Peig Sayers' stories and anecdotes about life on Great Blasket Island are published...
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  • Tomas O'Crohan's The Islandman, Sean O'Crohan's A Day in Our Life, and Peig Sayers's An Old Woman's Reflections. …' Rosenberg, Scott (17 March 1995). "'Secret...
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  • (1920–2003) Victor O'Donovan Power (1860–1933) Lennox Robinson (1886–1958) Peig Sayers (1873–1958), story teller John W. Sexton (born 1958) Somerville and Ross...
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  • in Ireland by the Censorship of Publications Board. Peig Sayers publishes her autobiography Peig. George Shiels' plays The Passing Day and The Jailbird...
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    German manager and brand developer; in Arnsberg, West Germany Died: Peig Sayers, 85, Irish Gaelic language storyteller (seanchaí) Tris Speaker, 70, American...
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  • 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2022. McGrath Bryan, Mike (11 March 2021). "Peig Sayers: Five things we learned from the TG4 documentary". IrishExaminer.com...
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    and aphorist (died 1940) Before March 29 (date of baptism) – Peig Sayers (Máiréad Sayers), Irish seanchaí (traditional storyteller) (died 1958) April...
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  • his informants, such as his longtime friend Michéal Ó Gaoithín, son of Peig Sayers, and Cáit ‘Bab’ Feiritéar,[citation needed] collecting them. Dunquin...
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  • especially on Great Blasket Island, located off the Dingle Peninsula: Peig by Peig Sayers, An t-Oileánach ("The Islandman") by Tomás Ó Criomhthain, and Fiche...
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