{"product_id":"peig-the-autobiography-of-peig-sayers-of-the-great-blasket-island-paperback","title":"Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeig Sayers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBryan Macmahon\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is one of the classics of modern Gaelic literature--the autobiography of Peig Sayers, a remarkable woman who lived forty years at the edge of survival on barren Great Blasket Island, and who came to be recognized as one of the last of Ireland's traditional storytellers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere is a story as unforgettable as it is simple. It reveals with fidelity, humor, and poignancy a woman's life in a bleak world where survival itself was a triumph and death as familiar as life. Peig said of her son Tomás, who was killed in a fall from a clifftop: \"Instead of his body being out in the broad ocean, there he was on the smooth detached stone. . . . laid out as expertly and as calmly as if twelve women had tended him.\" Her own farewell to life had the same clear-eyed simplicity: \"People will yet walk into the graveyard where I'll be lying; I'll be stretched out quietly and the old world will have vanished.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeig died in 1958, when she was 85. She is buried a short distance from the townland where she was born, above the sea on the Dingle Peninsula, within sight of the Great Blasket Island. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough this American edition, \u003ci\u003e Peig\u003c\/i\u003e will reach a new international audience. As Eoin McKiernan, President of the Irish American Cultural Institute, notes in his introduction, \u003ci\u003ePeig\u003c\/i\u003e has the \"quality of honesty and sincerity, of life lived at the bone.\" Long loved in Ireland, this autobiography will now be seen for what it truly is--one of the great heart-cries of the Irish people.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBryan MacMahon\u003c\/b\u003e, a fluent Irish speaker, looked on this translation of \u003ci\u003ePeig\u003c\/i\u003e as a labor of love. Novelist, folklorist, university lecturer, balladeer, and poet he has had three of his plays produced by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and his fiction has received critical acclaim and wide translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 1974\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987486638381,"sku":"9780815602583","price":22.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/dWtzb2pkTk42eUo1TDVJTjF1a2tLQT09.webp?v=1776178997","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/peig-the-autobiography-of-peig-sayers-of-the-great-blasket-island-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}