#PEIG SAYERS FAMILY TREE TV#
Robin Flower, remarking that her words could be written down as they leave her lips and would have the effect of literature, with no savour of the artificiality of composition (cited in Eddie Holt, TV Review, Irish Times, 12 Dec. See also Cathal Póirtéir, Blasket Island Reflections (RTÉ 2003). Breandan Feiritéir, Slán an Scéalaí: Scéal Pheig Sayers (RTE/G4 1998).See also Marian Broderick, Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives in Irish History (Dublin: O∫rien Press 2001). Mairin Nic Eoin, review of Labharfad le Cách / I Will Speak To You All: Peig Sayers, in The Irish Times (23 Jan.Alison Feder & Bernice Schrank (Memorial University of Newfoundland 1977), pp.83-109 Bryan MacMahon, Peig Sayers and the Vernacular of the Story Teller, in Literature and Folk Culture - Ireland and Newfoundland, ed.Tim Enright, trans., Mícheál OGuiheen, A Pity Youth Does Not Last (OUP q.d.)
#PEIG SAYERS FAMILY TREE SERIES#
Note: Series consists of 7 Blasket Island books title from container. See also Memoirs of the Great Blasket Island, 3 vols. Bo Almqvist & Pádraig Ó Héalaí (Dublin: New Island Press 2010), 312pp.
Several were published with the help and encouragement of visitors to the island, some of whom came to study the Irish language. Books from the Blasket Islands were written by farmers and fishermen such as Tomás Ó Criomhthain, whose memoir An tOileánach (The Islandman) has become a classic from Muiris Ó Suilleabháin whose book Fiche Bliain ag Fás (Twenty Years A Growing) tells how he was raised on the island by his grandfather before leaving to work on the mainland and from Peig Sayers, whose memoir, dictated to her son, reveals the islandwomen’s resilience, humour and courage.įrom the Great Blasket to America, a heartbreaking memoir written in 2013 by islander Mike Carney, describes what it was like growing up on the Blaskets, as well as his life in Springfield, Massachusetts, where many Blasket emigrants put down new roots.Īt the heart of each book is a love for the beauty of the writers’ surroundings, a profound respect for their cultural inheritance, and a powerful depiction of community. But a great way to connect with the heart of the islands is by reading its literature. If you come to the Dingle Pensinsula you can visit The Blasket Centre in mainland Dunquin (Dún Chaoin).