![]() ![]() The majority of people want to just observe the seals, he added.But the island, which has neither electricity nor water mains, doesn’t have public toilets.Īs a result, tourists use ruins - which include the first home Peig lived in when she arrived on the island that the OPW has owned since 2009 - as toilets instead. “But you get one ignorant person a day who wants to scare them all away - it ruins it for the other 200 people. If everybody could just work together, they could preserve the beautiful things on the island. ![]() Mr O’Donovan told RTÉ News at One that he had recently visited the island and had spoken with the Office of Public Works (OPW). He was aware that the lack of facilities on the island were an issue that the OPW intended to address and he estimated these would be in place by the beginning of the tourist season in 2023. ![]() Multilingual signage would also be erected at the boarding point for boats to the islands, on the boats and on the island urging co-operation with regard to wildlife etiquette. “I’m asking people to exercise cop on and to stay away from them. Peig Sayers (1873–1958) was an Irish author and seanchaí born in Dunquin (Dún Chaoin), County Kerry, Ireland. Seán Ó Súilleabháin, the former archivist for the Irish Folklore Commission, described her as "one of the greatest woman storytellers of recent times". She was born Máiréad Sayers in the townland of Vicarstown, Dunquin, County Kerry, the youngest child of the family. She was called Peig after her mother, Margaret "Peig" Brosnan, from Castleisland. Her father Tomás Sayers was a renowned storyteller who passed on many of his tales to Peig. At the age of 12, she was taken out of school and went to work as a servant for the Curran family in the nearby town of Dingle, where she said she was well treated. She spent two years there before returning home due to illness. PEIG SAYERS (1873-1958) was an Irish author and widely regarded as one of the best traditional Gaelic storytellers. She spent the next few years as a domestic servant working for members of the growing middle class produced by the Land War. She was taken out of school at age 12 and worked as a servant for the Curran family in the nearby town of Dingle for two years. She then spent the next few years as a domestic servant working for members of the growing middle. She had expected to join her best friend Cáit Boland in America, but Cáit wrote that she had had an accident and could not forward the cost of the fare. Peig moved to the Great Blasket Island after marrying Pádraig Ó Guithín, a fisherman and native of the island, on 13 February 1892. She and Pádraig had eleven children, of whom six survived. The Norwegian scholar Carl Marstrander, who visited the island in 1907, urged Robin Flower of the British Museum to visit the Blaskets. Flower was keenly appreciative of Peig Sayers' stories. He recorded them and brought them to the attention of the academic world. In the 1930s a Dublin teacher, Máire Ní Chinnéide, who was a regular visitor to the Blaskets, urged Peig to tell her life story to her son Mícheál. Peig was illiterate in the Irish language, having received her early schooling through the medium of English. He then sent the manuscript pages to Máire Ní Chinnéide in Dublin, who edited them for publication. Over several years from 1938 Peig dictated 350 ancient legends, ghost stories, folk stories, and religious stories to Seosamh Ó Dálaigh of the Irish Folklore Commission. It has often been forgotten that Sayers did not write the book with which she became associated. ![]() She continued to live on the island until 1942, when she returned to her native place, Dunquin. It was dictated to her son, Maidhc, who edited it to reflect a view of his mother as a stoic. She was moved to a hospital in Dingle, County Kerry where she died in 1958. She is buried in the Dún Chaoin Burial Ground, Corca Dhuibhne, Ireland. All her surviving children except Mícheál emigrated to the USA to live with their descendants in Springfield, Massachusetts. ![]()
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