In the 1930s a Dublin teacher, MГЎire NГ ChinnГ©ide, who was a regular visitor to the Blaskets, urged Peig to tell her life story to her son MicheГЎl. He recorded them and brought them to the attention of the academic world. Flower was keenly appreciative of Peig Sayers' stories and tales. The Norwegian scholar Carl Marstrander, who visited the island in 1907, urged Robin Flower, of the British Museum, to visit the Blaskets. She and PГЎdraig had eleven children, of whom six survived. Peig moved to the Great Blasket Island after marrying PГЎdraig Г“ GuithГn, a fisherman and native of the island. She had expected to join her best friend, CГЎit Boland, in America, but CГЎit wrote that she had had an accident and could not forward the cost of the fare. She spent the next few years as a domestic servant working for members of the growing middle class produced by the Land War. She spent two years there before returning home due to illness. At age 12, she was taken out of school and went to work as a servant for the Curran family in the nearby town of Dingle, where she said she was well treated. Her father TomГЎs Sayers was a renowned storyteller who passed on many of his tales to Peig.

She was called Peig after her mother, Margaret 'Peig' Brosnan, from Castleisland. She was born MГЎirГ©ad Sayers in the townland of Vicarstown, Dunquin, County Kerry, the youngest child of the family. SeГЎn Г“ SГєilleabhГЎin, the former archivist for the Irish Folklore Commission, described her as 'one of the greatest woman storytellers of recent times'. Peig Sayers ( / ЛЊ p Й› ЙЎ Л€ s Й›Й™r z/ 1873вЂ“1958) was an Irish author and seanachaГ born in Dunquin (DГєn Chaoin), County Kerry, Ireland.

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