Really like these sketches that Christine Hurlstone Jackson (Waddicor) drew of Peig Sayers on the Blasket – there’s a warmth and a liveliness to her in them that photos sometimes miss. pic.twitter.com/8LcrDbuLLm
— Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 (@Ciaraioch) September 5, 2020
‘A warmth and a liveliness to her in them that photos sometimes miss…’
You can say that aris.
Yikes.
Peig Sayers
Hacked at with love by Brian Ó Muirí.
Fair play, leis an gceart a dhéanamh.
Previously: Misery Loves Company
Stopaigh that.
Peig.
Flirty, giggly agus girlish.
Old Ireland in Colour writes:
We can confirm that Irish legend Peig Sayers did indeed smile! Here she is with English linguist Kenneth Jackson having the craic…1932-1935
Orignial pics via The National Folklore Collection
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— John Breslin (@johnbreslin) August 30, 2019
Or should we say, go hailinn?
*lights clay pipe*
The view from Peig Sayers’ cottage window. As inspiring and timeless as the woman herself.
(Peig doesn’t deserve the criticism she gets, don’t @ me) pic.twitter.com/ksHWK8Y0cq
— Lesley (@island_lesley) August 19, 2019
She had little to complain about, in fairness.
Peig Sayers in happier times
Further to recent neo-Gaelgoir revisionism.
A case for the ultimate Blasket case.
Author Sarah Baume writes:
It doesn’t matter to me that she didn’t place her own words down on paper, for this is only one element in the process of writing. Elegant prose it isn’t, but there are few authors with a more authentically Irish voice. Though much of what she described was unrelenting hardship, she was, by all accounts, pragmatic and cheerful in the face of it. Peig Sayers spoke for generations of poor, uneducated Irish women who never had the opportunity to speak for themselves….
TROID!
In praise of Peig Sayers, by Sara Baume (IrishTimes)
Go raibh maith agat Ultach
Monday morning Inspiration from the Blasket Islands.
Mmmf.
Via Linisgraphicards
Thanks Father Fatface
