An Old Woman's Reflections

By: Peig Sayers

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Paperback | 9 March 1977

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Storytelling kept alive the myths, legends and history of the Blasket Islands. In her old age, Peig Sayers, recounted her life to her son who recorded the tale in this book. She recalls the events of her life and her simple philosophy in a moving poetic style. Such everyday tasks as collecting turf for roots, catching and eating seals, and preparing for a wake are depicted alongside such momentous events as drownings at sea, pilgrimages, and the spread of the news of the Easter uprising in 1916. There were 'clouds of sorrow', but helping to lift them was the friendship she found in the community, which 'was like a little rose in the wilderness'. The Blasket Islands are three miles off Irelands Dingle Peninsula. Until their evacuation just after the Second World War, the lives of the 150 or so Blasket Islanders had remained unchanged for centuries. A rich oral tradition of story-telling, poetry, and folktales kept alive the legends and history of the islands, and has made their literature famous throughout the world. The 7 Blasket Island books published by OUP contain memoirs and reminiscences from within this literary tradition, evoking a way of life which has now vanished.

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Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900

Introduction	p. vii
A Pity how Youth goes	p. 1
St. Kathleen's Pilgrimage; an Old Woman from Ventry; and Other Matters	p. 5
Red Tommy and Margaret O'Brien	p. 14
The Old Woman who Wronged her Son	p. 24
A Man who was Clean in the Sight of People, but Unclean in the Sight of God	p. 29
A Woman who Forsook her Husband; a Fox and a Hen; and Other Matters	p. 32
The Snail-Trick; Tommy Griffin's Death; a Wake	p. 42
A Boat-Load of Turf brought from Iverogh during a Gale of Wind	p. 48
The Story of Betty Kelly's Son and his Bright Love	p. 56
Wethers' Well Pilgrimage; a Pagan and the Wethers; the Overcoat	p. 65
How the Fish was Stolen from Old Kate and how Herself ate some of it	p. 81
An Ass, a Bag of Potatoes, and Geese; Mackerel Shoaling	p. 86
A Milk-House in Little Island; Nance Daly and Nora Keaveney	p. 94
The Quarrel about Hens in Dunquin	p. 102
Martin Monday' a Gaelic Speaker from Mexico	p. 108
The News of the 1916 Revolution: the Black-and-Tans' Visit	p. 113
I am Seeking the Widows' Pension; I am in a Motor-Car	p. 121
The Last, Chapter	p. 128
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