#peig sayers

[sentienttoast]

i'm drawing this image of peig sayers on the great blasket island on wplace if anyone wants to join me. you'll see I've already drawn the top left corner so far

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1873 – Birth of Blasket Island storyteller, Peig Sayers, in Dunquin, Co Kerry.

Born Máiréad Sayers in the townland of Vicarstown, Dunquinn, Co 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 age 12, she was taken out of school and went to work as a servant for the Curran family in the nearby town of Dingle,…

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[taispinimoragam]

I'm starting a Peig Sayers fanclub reply if you wanna join

[maeve-an-bhanchainti]

"...as the skull said to the army officer, 'as you are, I once was. as I am now, you will one day be'."

"An Old Woman's Reflections", Peig Sayers

[bluehorsesgirl]

bad bitches only

[chuckbbirdsjunk]

[ancestorsalive]

“But I have this much to say, that I had good neighbors. We helped each other and lived in the shelter of each other. Everything that was coming dark upon us, we would disclose it to each other, and that would give us consolation of mind. Friendship was the fastest root in our hearts.”

~ Peig Sayers ‘The Life of a Blasket Island Storyteller’

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1903 – Birth of Róisín Madigan O’Reilly in Dublin. At aged 13, she became the youngest member of Cumann na mban.

Daughter to a German-born governess (E. Hessler) and an Irish Literature Lecturer, (E. O’Reilly) Madigan O’Reilly grew up speaking German, Irish and English and travelling sporadically to Potsdam to visit her mother’s affluent relations. Both her parents were staunch republicans. Her father wrote poems and articles for ‘An Claidheamh Soluis’ and, aged just 13, Madigan O’Reilly became the youngest…

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