Storytelling kept alive the myths, legends and history of the Blasket Islands. From 1958, he worked as a freelance performer, translator and broadcaster in Ireland, Britain and America. Buy An Old Womans Reflections by Peig Sayers for 27.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. He is recognised for having preserved almost 2,000 Irish songs and dance-tunes as part of the work he did with the Irish Folklore Commission. He was most noted for his uilleann pipe playing and is widely regarded as one of the greatest uilleann pipers of all time. SÉAMUS ENNIS (1919-1982) was an Irish musician, singer and Irish music collector. She died in Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland on 8 December 1958. She went on to dictate 350 ancient legends, ghost stories, folk stories, and religious stories to Seosamh Ó Dálaigh of the Irish Folklore Commission. In the 1930s, Máire Ní Chinnéide, a Dublin teacher and regular visitor to the Blaskets, urged Peig to tell her life story to her son Micheál, resulting in the 1936 publication of Peig’s famous autobiography Peig. The couple had 11 children, of whom six survived. Originally intending to join her best friend in America, Peig moved to the Great Blasket Island in 1892 after marrying Pádraig Ó Guithín, a fisherman and native of the island. She then spent the next few years as a domestic servant working for members of the growing middle class produced by the Land War. She was taken out of school at age 12 and worked as a servant for the Curran family in the nearby town of Dingle for two years. By Peig Sayers, Bryan Macmahon (Translator). She was born Máiréad Sayers in 1873 in the townland of Vicarstown, Dunquin, County Kerry, the youngest child of Margaret “Peig” Brosnan and Tomás Sayers, himself a renowned storyteller who passed on many of his tales to Peig. Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island (Irish Studies) (Paperback). PEIG SAYERS (1873-1958) was an Irish author and widely regarded as one of the best traditional Gaelic storytellers. Sayers is most famous for her autobiography Peig (ISBN 0-8156-0258-8), but also for the folklore and stories which were recorded in Machnamh Seanmhná (An Old Womans Reflections, ISBN 978-0-19-281239-1).The books were not written down by Peig, but were dictated to others.
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