This article reappraises the Irish-language autobiography, Peig, as a unique account of the
experience of life and work by a woman of the rural Irish speaking subsistence class. Peig is …

The Virgin Mary and our Saviour were out walking one day, and they happened to come to a
bridge. And there was a poor man sitting on the bridge wall and they began to talk to him …

Peig, the autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island, was first published in
1936 and was followed three years later by a second volume of lifewriting, Machtnamh …

The autobiography Peig A Scéal Féin (1936) inaugurated a new breakthrough in Blasket
Island literature. Only a few years after its original publication, the autobiography was …

Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island, famous throughout Europe for her storytelling in the
Irish language, also produced three published autobiographies: Peig: a Scéal Féin …

Fifteen years before John Millington Synge published his ethnography of the native
inhabitants of Inis Meáin in The Aran Islands, Emily Lawless wrote a novel set on the same …

The history of autobiography in the Irish language, which is a post-1900 phenomenon, has
been marked from the outset by the debates provoked by the language revival movement …

This article discusses representations of women in diaries written by Seán Ó hEochaidh as
part of his work as a field collector for the Irish Folklore Commission (1935-1971). Focusing …