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	Peig Sayers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peig Sayers was born in Dunquin (Dún Chaoin), a small town in County Kerry, Ireland.
		Peig Sayers continued to live on the island until 1953, when the island was abandoned due to declining population.
		Sayers is most famous for her autobiography, Peig, ISBN 0815602588, which she dictated to her son Micheál.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peig_Sayers (435 words)

	Peig Sayers
		Peig was born in Dunquin (Dún Chaoin), a small town in County Kerry, Ireland.
		She is most famous for her autobiography Peig which was dictated to her son Micheál.
		Peig continued to live on the island until 1953, when the island was abandoned due to declining population.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pe/Peig_Sayers.html (122 words)

	Peig Sayers - Vicipéid
		Seanchaí agus dírbheathaisnéisí Éireannach ab ea í Peig Sayers (1873 - 1958).
		Tháinig Peig Sayers ar an saol i nDún Chaoin, baile beag i gContae Ciarraí, Éire.
		Bhí Peig Sayers ina conaí ar an oileán go dtí an bhliain 1953, nuair a tréigeadh na Blascaodaí ar fad.
	ga.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peig_Sayers (195 words)

	Dorothy L Sayers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sayers was born in Oxford, where her father the Rev. Henry Sayers, M.A., was chaplain (and headmaster of the Choir School) of Christ Church College, Oxford.
		Despite Lady Sayer's establishment background, she was a fearless and empassioned fighter in the defence of Dartmoor: frequently she deliberately interrupted army live-firing exercises on Dartmoor's military ranges, and in 1985 snubbed The Prince of Wales over the Duchy of Cornwall's management plan for Dartmoor, since this allowed for a continuance of military usage.
		Sayer was always at his best when attacking Fox, whose strong features he portrayed with remarkable power, always so as to make them convey expressions of defiant impudence or anger.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/64/dorothy-l-sayers.html (1500 words)

	Island Writers by Maria - WriteWords.org.uk
		Peig Sayers of the Blasket Island, one of the great narrators of the wonder-tales of Gaelic Ireland, and a superb natural actress was on her deathbed.
		Peig Sayers was born in Dunquin on the mainland in 1873.
		Peig's father made a match for her with a man on the island and Peig accepted this man, willingly though she had never spoken to her soon-to-be husband until she met him at the altar.
	www.writewords.org.uk /archive/1380.asp (2493 words)

	Ireland's Dingle Peninsula -- History of the Peninsula
		Peig was born in 1873 in Dunquin/Dún Chaoin, County Kerry, one of 13 children.
		Sayers' most famous work was her autobiography 'Peig' and was taken down by one of her sons, Micheál.
		Sayers spent the remaining years of her life in a hospital in Dingle, where she died shortly before Christmas in 1958.
	www.dingle-region.com /history.htm (1997 words)

	Irish Literature in Translation - An Old Woman's Reflections by Peig Sayers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Peig’s reflections detail events over her lifetime, from her childhood in the Parish of Dunquin on the Dingle Peninsula to old age on the Great Blasket Island, where she spent over 40 years of her life.
		Peig describes the changes that have taken place over her lifetime and her pride in and love of the Irish language, which she describes as the “language of the superior men”.
		Peig had a gift for deriving pleasure from the simple things, and this, along with her musical speech and great skill as a storyteller, makes this book a most entertaining read.
	www.clarelibrary.ie /eolas/library/services/book-promos/classics/oldwoman.htm (284 words)

	UC Davis News & Information : Ireland: Blasket Island
		Peig Sayer’s house is the left of the two white houses in the background.
		Peig Sayers, one of the authors we are studying, lived on the island after her marriage to an island man. Sayers is one of the three most renowned Blasket writers and possessed a more traditional world view, incorporating traditional tales into her stories.
		Sayers would have most likely asserted that she was happiest on the Blasket Island.
	www.news.ucdavis.edu /special_reports/abroad04/ireland/ireland_5.lasso (697 words)

	Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island Peig Sayers , Bryan MacMahon Syracuse University ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It tells the story of Peig Sayers, a woman who lived in the poor and rural south-west of Ireland in the early 20th century.
		Peig was born on the mainland of Ireland, but married a fisherman who lived on the Blasket islands, a small collection of islands a few miles off the coast of Kerry.
		Now that Peig is no longer force fed down poor school children's throats, it has been re-appraised as a valuable historical record of western Irish culture, and no longer as an instrument of torture.
	www.removal-spyware.com /software/viewproduct.php?country=us&asin=0815602588 (974 words)

	The Orcadian Online - A Letter from North Ronaldsay
		Writers such as Thomás O Crohan, Peig Sayers, Micheál O Guiheen and Maurice O’Sullivan, all of whom had been born around the turn of the century, and as long ago as 1873 in the case of Peig Sayers.
		Peig Sayers - 1873-1958 - as she appears on the cover of her book, An Old Woman’s Reflections, The Life of a Blasket Island Storyteller.
		Peig’s stories, proverbs, insight and knowledge of life in the Great Blasket Island are very special.
	www.orcadian.co.uk /features/northronaldsay/march2002.htm (2676 words)

	An Old Woman's Reflections by Peig Sayers
		Peig Sayers, 'the Queen of Gaelic story-tellers', spent the greater part of her long life on the Great Blasket Island.
		She was a natural orator, and students and scholars of the Irish language came from far and wide to visit her.
		In her old age, Peig Sayers, `the Queen of Gaelic storytellers', recounted her life to her son, who recorded the tale in this book.
	www.claddagh.com /books/book.asp?ISBN=0192812394 (199 words)

	The Blasket Islands, County Kerry, Ireland
		In the early years of the 20th century, some of these visitors, such as Carl Marstrander, George Thompson, Brian O'Kelly and Robin Flower, persuaded a few of the islanders to write their autobiographies as a record of island life.
		Péig dictated her book to her son Mícheál, to whom she dictated her story because, although she had spoken Irish all her life, she had only been taught to read and write in the English language.
		This is the house of Flint Guithín, husband of Péig Sayers.
	www.kerryholiday.co.uk /blaskets.html (861 words)

	Slugger O'Toole: Exemptions from taking Irish exams on the rise
		Peig is the book that has been the scourge of Leaving Cert Irish students for generations.
		Posted by: David at June 7, 2005 02:53 PM It is the story of Peig Sayers' life on the Great Blasket Island, where nothing much ever seems to go on except turf cutting and the like.
		Posted by: foreign correspondent at June 7, 2005 02:58 PM Peig is still on the curriculum, however it is now only one of a series of texts which may be covered under the literature part of the course.
	www.sluggerotoole.com /archives/2005/06/exemptions_from.php (2140 words)

	Islanders
		As my old sneakers slide onto the slippery floor of the Peig Sayers, a small but sturdy looking passenger ferry, I imagine the women of times gone by lifting up their long skirts as they climb into the boat.
		Peig Sayers, the name patron of the little ferry, lived forty years on the island and was among the last ones to leave.
		She can help you get there on the Peig Sayers, and she's in charge of the accommodation on Great Blasket (there's a special overnight package that includes the boat trip, dinner, and bed and breakfast!).
	www.travellady.com /Issues/May04/79TIslanders.htm (2030 words)

	An Teanga Bheo / ireland.com
		Fágann an chonspóid is déanaí i dtaobh Pheig Sayers agus a háit i saol sóisialta na tíre seo fuar mé.
		Thóg Sayers a clann i dteach beag ar an oileán.
		Ní thuigfeadh aos óg an lae inniu de bhunús na gcathracha agus na mbailte móra an sórt saoil a chleacht Peig.
	www.ireland.com /gaeilge/teangabeo/1998/0513/ceist1.htm (598 words)

	Amazon.com: Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island: Books: Peig Sayers,Bryan MacMahon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I felt her pain when she left dunquinn for the island and felt her joy when she was welcomed to the island and it's people.
		I want to go live on the blaskets islands or sit by Peigs grave and tell her what a wonderful life she had, not a hard one as she imagined with the cruel seas ect., life is much harder here in this big bad world.
		Peig has touched my life and I have lost the book so many times when friends did not return it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0815602588?v=glance (1770 words)

	History 152A
		Peig Sayers (1873-1958), Tomás O Crohan (1856-1937), and Maurice O’Sullivan (1904-50), were Gaelic-speaking Catholics who lived out their lives on or within sight of the Blasket islands, which lie off the Kerry coast.
		In this assignment you will work with Synge and with your chosen Blasket writer[1] to understand that world and the changes it was undergoing in the lifetime of your author.
		Peig Sayers, Autobiography; Peig Sayers, An Old Woman’s Reflections; Tomás O Crohan, The Islandman; Maurice O’Sullivan, Twenty Years a’Growing.
	history.berkeley.edu /faculty/Brady/H152A/outlines/paper2.html (884 words)

	Sayers Family Crest
		The name Sayers was carried to England in the enormous movement of people that followed the Norman Conquest of 1066.
		Their name, however, is a reference to St. Saire, Normandy, the family's place of residence prior to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
		In the Sayers coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/sayers-family-crest.htm?a=54323-224 (472 words)

	An Old Woman's Reflections (Oxford Paperbacks) Peig Sayers , W. R. Rodgers , S'emus Ennis Oxford University Press, USA ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Peig may have had the "poor mouth" but she never whined about it.
		I am now in my third reading of Peig Sayer's autobiography and, over the years, I keep getting more out of her vision.
		It's not that I want to be Peig Sayers, its just that I think she has a lot to say to those of us who have become so far removed from the essentials of God's world.
	www.removal-spyware.com /software/viewproduct.php?country=us&asin=0192812394 (654 words)

	Holidayhound - Kerry, Blasket Islands, Dingle, Gaeltacht, Weather, Charles Haughey, Peig Sayers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lying two miles off the tip of Dunmore Head, mainland Ireland's most westerly point, are a group of islands known in Irish as Na Blascaod, the Blaskets in English.
		Peig Sayers, a crotchety, bitter woman who made life miserable for generations of Irish schoolchildren who were forced to read her eponymous memoirs, lived on the Great Blasket.
		She is not a good example of the type of literature produced by the islanders (instead try Tomas O Criothain - ed.).
	www.holidayhound.com /editorials/t1kpblaadvise.htm (972 words)

	A Pity Youth Does Not Last by Micheel O'Guiheen
		Michéal O'Guiheen was the son of Peig Sayers, `the Queen of the Gaelic storytellers'.
		The last of the Blasket's celebrated poets and storytellers, he describes how the isolation of his youth was slowly eroded by the creeping of civilization across the three miles separating the islands from County Kerry, and the sadness of leaving the Great Blasket for the last time.
		This book is intended for readers of Peig Sayers and other Blasket Island titles; all those with a keen interest in Ireland, its culture, and people.
	www.claddagh.com /books/book.asp?ISBN=019281320X (175 words)

	peg sayers
		They were the words of Peig Sayers, of that there is no doubt.
		Were it not a triumph of social history and comment, had it merely been a study of a way of life now extinct, it would never have been taught to countless children.
		All of this is a consolation to the family of Peig Sayers (long in hiding under Government protection) who make the pilgrimage to her grave on the hillside above Dun Chaoin overlooking the Great Blasket itself, to wash the urine of those whose lives she affected off her head stone.
	www.ivenus.com /therightstuff/features/RS-TC-FocalPoint-PegSayers-wk55.asp (610 words)

	Gender and Sexuality in Irish Writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Peig Sayers Scéalaí 1873-1958 (Ceiliúradh an Bhlascaoid 3).
		Patricia Coughlan has lectured and broadcast at conferences, seminars and summer schools in Britain, France, the U.S. and throughout Ireland on a wide range of topics in feminist criticism.
		She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Irish Journal of Feminist Studies and of the Committee of Cork University Press and is a former chair of the Board of Women's Studies at University College Cork.
	www.ucc.ie /english/gender/staff.html (525 words)

	The Blasket Islands on the Southwest Coast of Ireland - Historical Information
		(In due course Peig moved to one of the new houses in the upper village.) Both Island poets, Seán Ó Duinnshléibhe and Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (Muiris Ó Súilleabháin's great-grandfather), lived in the lower village.
		The Irish scholar Máire Ní Chinnéide and the student Léan Ní Chonalláin approached Peig Sayers and persuaded her to write her autobiography for them, although it was Bláithín and Kenneth Jackson who first recognised her talent before that when recording Scéalta ón mBlascaod (Stories from the Blasket) from her.
		Peig's scribe was her son, Mícheál Ó Gaoithín, to whom she dictated her life story.
	www.dingle-peninsula.ie /blaskets2.html (2634 words)

	Blakestown Racing Club / Peig Sayers , Tertia , Lets Clic Together / Racehorse, Horse Racing, Flat Racing / (Kevin ...
		Our first venture through the Summer of '96 was with a Michael Grassick trained two-year-old filly, 'Peig Sayers' by 'Royal Academy' out of 'Dingle Bay'...
		Peig was not that keen on the job and ran three moderate efforts that year, but we did enjoy the days out and the bug definitely bit some of the members.
		The past season of '97 can only be refered to as a season to remember, another filly in training with Michael Grassick, but this time she was a three-year-old, Tertia, by 'Polish Patriot' out of a German mare called 'Traumerei'...
	www.iol.ie /~kevnilse/blakestn.html (1884 words)

	Amazon.ca: Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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	Amazon.com: An Old Woman's Reflections (Oxford Paperbacks): Books: Peig Sayers,W. R. Rodgers,S'emus Ennis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Known affectionately as "the Queen of Gaelic Storytellers," Peig Sayers here offers reminiscences of the daily events that made up her life (such as seal catching, collecting turf for roofs, preparing for a funeral wake) alongside the tragedies of drownings at sea, pilgrimages, and the news of
		It is a unique record of an essential part of the oral Gaelic tradition.
		We are spoiled on material goods and suffer from spiritual deprivation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192812394?v=glance (1218 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: An Old Woman's Reflections (Oxford Paperbacks): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Peig Sayers, W.R. Rodgers (Introduction), Seamus Ennis (Translator)
		In her old age, Peig Sayers, recounted her life to her son who recorded the tale in this book.
		Customers who bought books by Peig Sayers also bought books by these authors:
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0192812394 (723 words)

	Mick Moloney's Magical Musical Folklore Tours
		I'd like to say I'm writing this from Peig Sayers' old cottage on the Great Blasket Isle, but after our drenching boat ride, I'm happy to be penning this in my cozy room at the Castlerosse Hotel.
		The Blasket was eerie with the late afternoon sun peering into eyeless ruined thatches raped by the wind.
		This lonely windswept bog, deserted since 1953, has produced some of Ireland's most potent folk literature --including the memoirs of Muiris O'Suileabhain, Twenty Years A-Growing, (1933) Peig Sayers' An Old Woman's Reflections (1939) and Peig, (1936) and Tomas O'Crohan's The Islandman (1929).
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/scatter_the_mud/articles/moloney.htm (1456 words)

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