![]() They leave on a calm morning but the weather starts to pick up again and some of the men fall over board and drown. The weather is bad for a few days so they decide to stay on the mainland until it blows over. One story tells of a group of men from the Blasket Island who go over to the mainland on a boat to collect turf to bring back to the island. This was a time when Ireland was most dependent on agriculture and most people in Ireland were considered poor. The stories are generally of a tragic nature. ![]() Her stories give an account of what happened day to day for the inhabitants of the island. The book Peig published by oxford press is a collection of the stories told by Peig Sayers on the Blasket Islands. She is buried in the Dún Chaoin Burial Ground, Corca Duibhne. She stayed on the island until 1942, she then returned to Dingle. She was moved to a hospital in Dingle, County Kerry where she died in 1958. Seosamh O Dalaigh then donated the stories to the Irish Folklore Commision. From 1938, she dictated 350 stories mainly ancient legends, ghost stories, folk stories, and religious stories to Seosamh Ó Dálaigh. Most of her stories can be listened to in the Irish Folklore Commission. He then sent the manuscript pages to Máire Ní Chinnéide in Dublin, who edited them for publication. Micheál recorded all her stories and put together her biography. In or around the 1930s a Dublin teacher, Maire Ni Chineide wanted Peig Sayers to tell her son Micheal all the stories she has. These stories created a lot of interest in the academic world. He was very interested in the stories and wanted to make them available to the public. Robin Flower an academic from the British Museum went over to the Blaskets to meet with Peg Sayers. ![]() Peig had eleven children but only six survived. Peig moved to the Great Blasket Islands after she married a fisherman who was living on the island. She spent the next few years as a domestic servant working for members of the middle class. At 12 she went to work for a well to do family in Dingle. She really enjoyed telling stories at a young age. He passed on some stories to the young Peig. Her father was a well-known story teller of his time. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.Peg was born in County Kerry. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. GFDL GNU Free Documentation License true true A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. ![]() CC BY-SA 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 true true share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work.
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