An Old Woman's Reflections
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An Old Woman's Reflections

  1. 120 pages
  2. English
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An Old Woman's Reflections

About this book

Peig Sayers was 'the Queen, of Gaelic story-tellers'. She was born in the parish of Dunquin in Kerry and married into a neighbouring island, the Great Blasket, where she spent most of her life. Students and scholars of the Irish language came from far and wide to visit her. She was, as Robin Flower wrote in The Western Island, 'a natural orator, with so keen a sense of the turn of phrase and the lifting rhythm appropriate to Irish that her words could be written down as they leave her lips, and they would have the effect of literature with no savour of the artificiality of composition'.Her Reflections are a collection of her fireside stories, most of them tales of her friends and neighbours on the Great Blasket, the island that also produced Maurice O'Sullivan's Twenty Tears A-Growing and T?mas ? Crohan's The Islandman.

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Information

Publisher
Borodino Books
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781789122374
Topic
History
Subtopic
British History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. INTRODUCTION
  4. CHAPTER ONE - A Pity how Youth goes
  5. CHAPTER TWO - St. Kathleen’s Pilgrimage; an Old Woman from Ventry; and Other Matters
  6. CHAPTER THREE - Red Tommy and Margaret O’Brien
  7. CHAPTER FOUR - The Old Woman who Wronged her Son
  8. CHAPTER FIVE - A Man who was Clean in the Sight of People, but Unclean in the Sight of God
  9. CHAPTER SIX - A Woman who Forsook her Husband; a Fox and a Hen; and Other Matters
  10. CHAPTER SEVEN - The Snail-Trick; Tommy Griffin’s Death; a Wake
  11. CHAPTER EIGHT - A Boat-Load of Turf brought from Iveragh during a Gale of Wind
  12. CHAPTER NINE - The Story of Betty Kelly’s Son and his Bright Love
  13. CHAPTER TEN - Wethers’ Well Pilgrimage; a Pagan and the Wethers; the Overcoat
  14. CHAPTER ELEVEN - How the Fish was Stolen from Old Kate and how Herself ate some of it
  15. CHAPTER TWELVE - An Ass, a Bag of Potatoes, and Geese; Mackerel Shoaling
  16. CHAPTER THIRTEEN - A Milk-House in Little Island; Nance Daly and Nora Keaveney
  17. CHAPTER FOURTEEN - The Quarrel about Hens in Dunquin
  18. CHAPTER FIFTEEN - ‘Martin Monday’ a Gaelic Speaker from Mexico
  19. CHAPTER SIXTEEN - The News of the 1916 Revolution: the Black-and-Tans’ Visit
  20. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - I am Seeking the Widows’ Pension; I am in a Motor-Car
  21. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - The Last Chapter
  22. REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER