#PEIG SAYERS AUTOBIOGRAPHY MANUAL#
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It causes a linguistic and cultural clash that cannot always be resolved and raises questions of re-appropriation and remaking – how much liberty can the translator take while still maintaining the integrity of the original? This is especially relevant when looking at Peig’s texts, as from the viewpoint of revivalists, these texts were intended to reawaken and revitalise the Irish language.Īll that to say, the Blasket Island books, when written were seen as representing the peasant narrative of Ireland – this gave them a cultural and aesthetic ‘Irishness’ that reproduced adeeply authentic narrative in the eyes of many revivalists scholars. Ttranslation almost always involves a renegotiation and ‘re’ or ‘mis’ representation of the original text. When encountering texts that have been translated it is essential to consider them a form of re-writing. Peig enlisted her son Mike to transcribe her life’s stories as she could neither read nor write in Irish.

One of the reasons the Blasket island texts became so important was because the islanders were seen as entirely separated from the mainland Ireland, with all its anglicisation and industrialisation. During the literary and cultural revival many Blasket Islanders were encouraged by scholars and activists to write down and document their lives. It’s crucial to contextualise how we came to have Peig’s autobiographies. She married Pádraig Ó Gaoithín and moved to the Great Blasket island with him. When her brother found her a match Peig took the opportunity to make her own home.

#PEIG SAYERS AUTOBIOGRAPHY MANUAL#

Born on the mainland Peig left school at thirteen to work as a manual labourer. Peig was a storyteller of epic proportions to those of the Great Blasket community, renowned for her magnificent repertoire of European folk tales and Irish hero legends.

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They consider Peig’s story bleak and miserable and full of hardship however, in her lifetime Peig was anything but boring to those around her. There is a particular generation of Irish people whose knowledge of Peig Sayers does not extend past that of my mothers.

Yet I think it is striking to think about the general perception of Peig, exemplified in my mother, when we look at her. She recounts many adversities from the interruption of her wedding day by the death of her niece, to the tragic death of her own son as a teenager.

Peig’s story is one of long-suffering throughout her life. Yet that knowledge never stopped my Mother asking me, as if she were hoping we could bond over a mutual trauma. I never did study Peig Sayers in school – it was removed from the course long before then. Being a typical Leaving Cert student my mother could not recall anything in the slightest about Peig except that it was a deeply boring and depressing text. OL2187301W Page_number_confidence 91.38 Pages 234 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220317200145 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 295 Scandate 20220315170620 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0815601069 Tts_version 4.The first time I heard of Peig Sayers was from my mother, who, for every year of my secondary school would inquiringly ask me whether I was studying Peigs Sayers. Urn:lcp:peigautobiograph0000saye_b8o1:epub:b4d4317e-97c9-4ca5-bb06-128d931e0ddc Foldoutcount 0 Identifier peigautobiograph0000saye_b8o1 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2jbxvs300v Invoice 1652 Isbn 0815601069 Lccn 74011721 //r983 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng+gle Old_pallet IA-WL-1300135 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:09:10 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40404706 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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