The movement swiftly found itself the object of some derision and mockery – especially among the more cosmopolitan intellectual bourgeois of Ireland – for its often relentless depictions of rural hardship. Flaherty's documentary film Man of Aran address similar subjects. Tomás Ó Criomhthain's memoir an tOileánach ('the Islandman', 1929) and Muiris Ó Súilleabháin's Fiche Bliain ag Fás, and Robert J. Peig is among the most famous expressions of a late Gaelic Revival genre of personal histories by and about inhabitants of the Blasket Islands and other remote Irish locations. The books were not written down by Peig but were dictated to others. Sayers is most famous for her autobiography Peig ISBN 0-8156-0258-8, but also for the folklore and stories which were recorded in Machnamh Seanmhná/An Old Woman's Reflections, ISBN 978-0-19-281239-1. All her surviving children except Mícheál emigrated to the USA to live with their descendants in Springfield, Massachusetts. She is buried in the Dún Chaoin Burial Ground, Corca Dhuibhne, Ireland. She was moved to a hospital in Dingle, County Kerry where she died in 1958. She continued to live on the island until 1942, when she returned to her native place, Dunquin. Over several years from 1938 Peig dictated 350 ancient legends, ghost stories, folk stories, and religious stories to Seosamh Ó Dálaigh of the Irish Folklore Commission. He then sent the manuscript pages to Máire Ní Chinnéide in Dublin, who edited them for publication. Peig was illiterate in the Irish language, having received her early schooling through the medium of English.

In the 1930s a Dublin teacher, Máire Ní Chinnéide, who was a regular visitor to the Blaskets, urged Peig to tell her life story to her son Mícheál. He recorded them and brought them to the attention of the academic world. Flower was keenly appreciative of Peig Sayers' stories. The Norwegian scholar Carl Marstrander, who visited the island in 1907, urged Robin Flower of the British Museum to visit the Blaskets. She and Pádraig had eleven children, of whom six survived. Peig moved to the Great Blasket Island after marrying Pádraig Ó Guithín, a fisherman and native of the island, on 13 February 1892. She had expected to join her best friend Cáit Boland in America, but Cáit wrote that she had had an accident and could not forward the cost of the fare.

She spent the next few years as a domestic servant working for members of the growing middle class produced by the Land War. She spent two years there before returning home due to illness. At the age of 12, she was taken out of school and went to work as a servant for the Curran family in the nearby town of Dingle, where she said she was well treated. Her father Tomás Sayers was a renowned storyteller who passed on many of his tales to Peig. She was called Peig after her mother, Margaret 'Peig' Brosnan, from Castleisland. OL2187301W Page_number_confidence 91.38 Pages 234 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220317200145 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 295 Scandate 20220315170620 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0815601069 Tts_version 4.She was born Máiréad Sayers in the townland of Vicarstown, Dunquin, County Kerry, the youngest child of the family. Urn:lcp:peigautobiograph0000saye_b8o1:epub:b4d4317e-97c9-4ca5-bb06-128d931e0ddc Foldoutcount 0 Identifier peigautobiograph0000saye_b8o1 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2jbxvs300v Invoice 1652 Isbn 0815601069 Lccn 74011721 //r983 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng+gle Old_pallet IA-WL-1300135 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:09:10 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40404706 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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