The two men had published a previous collection, entitled Labharfad le Cách / I will Speak to you All, over a decade ago. Ó Héalaí and Almqvist drew on remastered recordings by the Irish Folklore Commission, which were taped in 1952 when Sayers was being treated for cancer in St Anne’s Hospital in Ranelagh, Dublin. “The image of her created by the text on the Leaving Certificate curriculum was unfortunate, as it didn’t give a good indication of the woman she really was, “ Dr Ó Héalaí says.Ī tale of a woman who had a child with a merman, and other stories which showed a more open, complex and often defiant character, are among the accounts gathered. It has been collated by Dr Pádraig Ó Héalaí of NUI Galway (NUIG)and the late Prof Bo Almqvist of University College Dublin (UCD) and includes recordings of Sayers on audio CDs.Ī woman who liked a sup of whiskey and was a feminist of her time, Sayers is still synonymous with nightmares among past generations of secondary school students who studied her autobiography, Peig. The new dual-language publication, entitled Níl Deireadh Ráite/Not the Final Word, is published by New Island Press. As if there wasn’t enough Kerry sadness with Fungie’s disappearance, along comes Peig Sayers.Īs The Sunday Independent reports today, a newly published collection of stories by one of the Great Blasket’s best-known residents shows her “grámhar or more flirtatious side.
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