(1873-03-29)29 March 1873 Dún Chaoin, County Kerry, Ireland
Died
8 December 1958(1958-12-08) (aged 85) Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland
Occupation
Storyteller, housewife
Nationality
Irish
Notable works
Peig
Spouse
Pádraig Ó Guithín
Máiréad "Peig" Sayers (/ˌpɛɡˈseɪərz/; 29 March 1873 – 8 December 1958) was an Irish author and seanchaí (pronounced[ˈʃan̪ˠəxiː] or [ʃan̪ˠəˈxiː]) born in Dún Chaoin, County Kerry, Ireland.[1] Seán Ó Súilleabháin, the former Chief archivist for the Irish Folklore Commission, described her as "one of the greatest woman storytellers of recent times".[2]
^Margaret Sears Area – Kerry (RC), Parish/Church/Congregation – Ballyferriter
^Sean O'Sullivan, "Folktales of Ireland," pages 270–271: "The narrator, Peig Sayers, who died on 8 December 1958, was one of the greatest storytellers of recent times. Some of her tales were recorded on the Ediphone in the late 'twenties by Dr. Robin Flower, Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, and again by Seosamh Ó Dálaigh twenty years later."
Máiréad "Peig" Sayers (/ˌpɛɡ ˈseɪərz/; 29 March 1873 – 8 December 1958) was an Irish author and seanchaí (pronounced [ˈʃan̪ˠəxiː] or [ʃan̪ˠəˈxiː]) born...
is dramatic cliff scenery, with a view of the Blasket Islands, where PeigSayers lived. A museum in the village tells the story of the Blaskets and the...
Irish, exemplified by the influential works of Blasket Islanders such as PeigSayers, Muiris Ó Súilleabháin and Tomás Ó Criomhthain. Kerry is the fifth largest...
the old village. The home of Muiris Ó Súilleabháin is now in ruins but PeigSayers' second home on the island has been restored. The home of Tomás Ó Criomhthain...
(Island cross-talk) by Tomás Ó Criomhthain, Peig and Machnamh Seanamhná (An Old Woman's Reflections) by PeigSayers, Fiche Blian ag Fás (Twenty Years A-Growing)...
sessions are not as common now as they were in the past. In her book Peig, PeigSayers notes that when she was young they often attended sessions at people's...
from the west coast, exemplified by the work of Tomás Ó Criomhthain and PeigSayers. Máiréad Ní Ghráda wrote numerous successful plays often influenced by...
Feiritéar, Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha, Cáit Feiritéar, and PeigSayers among others. This is the westernmost part of Ireland, and the village...
Ripp" 2005 Revelations Mother Francine Miniseries 2007 Paddywhackery PeigSayers Main cast Nominated–Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actress...
(1920–2003) Victor O'Donovan Power (1860–1933) Lennox Robinson (1886–1958) PeigSayers (1873–1958), story teller John W. Sexton (born 1958) Somerville and Ross...
Moore, George Jean Nathan, Seumas O'Sullivan, Elliot Paul, Máiréad "Peig" Sayers, Robert W. Service, John Collings Squire, Marie Stopes, Ralph Waldo Trine...
Tomas O'Crohan's The Islandman, Sean O'Crohan's A Day in Our Life, and PeigSayers's An Old Woman's Reflections. …' Rosenberg, Scott (17 March 1995). "'Secret...
itself and via internet search databases. Irish language Irish folklore PeigSayers Éamon a Búrc Kevin Danaher Citations Almqvist (1977–1979), p. 8. Almqvist...
made friends with interviewees, including Michéal Ó Gaoithín, son of PeigSayers, and traditional storytellers such as Mícheál Ó Gaoithín and Cáit ‘Bab’...
McKibbin, businessman and Ulster Unionist Party MP (born 1892) 8 December – PeigSayers (Máiréad Ó Gaoithín), seanachaí (traditional storyteller) (born 1873)...
Petrescu-Comnen, Romanian social scientist, historian and poet (born 1881) PeigSayers (Máiréad Ó Gaoithín), Irish seanchaí (traditional storyteller, born 1873)...
Corca Dhuibhne dialect of Munster Irish on Great Blasket Island with PeigSayers and Tomás Ó Criomhthain, and then teaching at the School of Irish Learning...
a brief period, during which she composed her Fifth String Quartet. PeigSayers' stories and anecdotes about life on Great Blasket Island are published...
especially on Great Blasket Island, located off the Dingle Peninsula: Peig by PeigSayers, An t-Oileánach ("The Islandman") by Tomás Ó Criomhthain, and Fiche...
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