Peig sayers autobiography books

          An Old Woman's Reflections (Oxford Paperbacks)..

          Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island

          Here is a story as unforgettable as it is simple.

          Peig Sayers, Bryan MacMahon (Translator), Eoin McKiernan (Introduction) · About the author.

        1. Peig Sayers, Bryan MacMahon (Translator), Eoin McKiernan (Introduction) · About the author.
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        3. An Old Woman's Reflections (Oxford Paperbacks).
        4. Máiréad "Peig" Sayers was an Irish author and seanchaí born in Dún Chaoin, County Kerry, Ireland.
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          6. 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.

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          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