Peig Sayers

Irish-language storyteller (seanchaĆ­) and memoirist from the Blasket Islands, known for her autobiographical work 'Peig' and for preserving traditional folklore and oral history.

This list of books are ONLY the books that have been ranked on the lists that are aggregated on this site. This is not a comprehensive list of all books by this author.

  1. 1. Peig

    An intimate, unsparing autobiography that recollects life in an Irish-speaking coastal community, tracing childhood and adulthood through harsh labor, poverty, emigration, and personal loss while preserving the rhythms of oral storytelling, folk memory, and Catholic faith; it portrays daily work, community bonds, and the stoic resilience of a woman whose voice became a vital record of a disappearing traditional way of life.

    Purchase from Bookshop.org