1909 1998 translator (1 Ergebnisse)
Peig : the autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island. [The Days of My Youth; Affairs of Home & School; I am a Cause of Strife; How I Heard Stories in My Young Days; The Day of the Races; The Same Old Story Ever & Always; Farewell to My Youth; The New Life; Christmastide; Shrovetide Doings; Exciting Stories in Dingle; More Adventures; I Return to My People; Seamas who was called Pleasc; A Feast an Escort & a Farewell Forever; In Service again; My Last Days in Service; Match & Marriage; A New & Different World; The Birth of My First Child; My Life on the Island; Comfort & Grief; Scattering & Sorrow; Life Alone & Lonely; Fireside Tales; Adventures of Mine; The Last Chapter]
Sayers, Peig, 1873-1958 ; illustrations by Catriona O'Connor. ; MacMahon, Bryan,; 1909-1998, translator; Ó Guithin, Micheál, compiler.
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 212 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0854520864; 9780854520862 ; LC: DA990.B65; Dewey: 914.15 ; OCLC: 9040807 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Contents : The Days of My Youth -- Affairs of Home and School -- I am a Cause of Strife -- How I Heard Stories in My Young Days -- The Day of the Ra…ces -- The Same Old Story Ever and Always -- Farewell to My Youth -- The New Life -- Christmastide -- Shrovetide Doings -- Exciting Stories in Dingle -- More Adventures -- I Return to My People -- Seamas who was called Pleasc -- A Feast an Escort and a Farewell Forever -- In Service again -- My Last Days in Service -- Match and Marriage -- A New and Different World -- The Birth of My First Child -- My Life on the Island -- Comfort and Grief -- Scattering and Sorrow -- Life Alone and Lonely -- Fireside Tales -- Adventures of Mine -- The Last Chapter ; "Known affectionately as "the Queen of Gaelic Storytellers," Peig Sayers here offers reminiscences of the daily events that made up her life (such as seal catching, collecting turf for roofs, preparing for a funeral wake) alongside the tragedies of drownings at sea, pilgrimages, and the news of the 1916 revolution in Dublin City. It is a unique record of an essential part of the oral Gaelic tradition." ; required reading for all Irish students ; remains of labels on covers ; VG. Book.
