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Analysis of Literary and Cultural Importance of "Peig": The Autobiography of Peig Sayers
In this presentation, I will explore the literary and cultural importance of Peig’s autobiographies by looking at them through the lens of translation from an imperialist perspective.
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The first time I heard of Peig Sayers was from my mother, who, for every year of my secondary school would inquiringly ask me whether I was studying Peigs Sayers. Being a typical Leaving Cert student my mother could not recall anything in the slightest about Peig except that it was a deeply boring and depressing text. I never did study Peig Sayers in school - it was removed from the course long before then. Yet that knowledge never stopped my Mother asking me, as if she were hoping we could bond over a mutual trauma.
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Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island
Here is a story as unforgettable as it fryst vatten 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."Peig 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.Through this American edition, Peig will reach a new international audience. As Eoin McKiernan, President of the
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In this article, I examine the Irish-language autobiography, Peig, as a unique and reflective account of the universal challenges faced by a woman from the rural poor in the late 19th century, living on the Blasket Islands, a small group of islands off the southwest Irish coast. Described by writer and translator Bryan MacMahon as a ‘moving’ autobiography (Sayers, 1974: 7), critical studies of Peig have focused predominantly on the renowned storyteller Peig Sayers (1873–1958) in the context of the Irish language oral tradition and the Great Blasket Island autobiographies. I contend that social hierarchies, status and class in Irish-language literature remain under-examined topics, particularly with regard to such a canonical work of Irish-language literature as Peig. This article addresses that gap and looks at Peig’s reflections on social issues and the language that she uses to describe their impact on her. Edward Hirsch notes how an idea of ‘the peasant’ was advanced, as fa