The Currans were members of the growing Irish Catholic middle class produced by the Government-funded breakup and sale of the Anglo-Irish landlords' estates after the Land War. Sayers' later memoir Peig describes her childhood immersed in traditional Munster Irish-speaking culture, which was still surviving despite rackrenting Anglo-Irish landlords, the resulting extreme poverty, and the coercive Anglicisation of the educational system.Īnother theme of her memories was devout Catholicism and mass emigration to the New World following a ceremonial ceilidh called an "American wake".Īt the age of 12, she was taken out of the National school and went to work as a domestic servant for the Curran family in the nearby town of Dingle. Through her father's influence, Peig also grew up upon a rich oral tradition of Irish folklore, mythology, and local history, including local folk heroes like Piaras Feiritéar, faction fights at pattern days and market fairs before the Great Famine, and the lingering memory of Mass rocks and priest hunters under the Penal Laws. Her father Tomás Sayers was a locally renowned expert on the oral tradition and passed on many of his tales to Peig. She was called Peig after her mother, Margaret "Peig" Brosnan, from Castleisland. She was born Máiréad Sayers in the townland of Vicarstown, Dunquin, Corca Dhuibhne, County Kerry, the youngest child of the family. Seán Ó Súilleabháin, the former Chief archivist for the Irish Folklore Commission, described her as "one of the greatest woman storytellers of recent times". Posts, comments and submissions available.Máiréad "Peig" Sayers ( / ˌ p ɛ ɡ ˈ s ɛər z/ 29 March 1873 – 8 December 1958) was an Irish author and seanchaí ( pronounced or – plural: seanchaithe ) born in Dún Chaoin, County Kerry, Ireland.
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Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice. The Journal supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and the Office of the Press When booking a ticket on Irish Rail, a slew of question marks, asterixis and apostrophes appear where the fada should be, positioned in green above your seat. And maybe it stuck, and they always went by Gearóidín, and when the official letters and passports came, it made for an interesting anecdote: “Oh yes, my real name is actually Geraldine, but I’ve been Gearóidín since I was a child.”Īnyone with a fada on their name has a story – they either omit the fada by default every time or are met with countless system errors. That may have been the case for many Gearóidíns – they went to primary school as Geraldine and came out the other end as Gearóidín. Múinteoir would refuse to accept a child named ‘Grace’ or ‘John’, bestowing them with ‘Gráinne’ or ‘Seán’, often times creating an Irish adjacent surname from thin air. I think it possibly goes back to the Sean Múinteoir, fadó fadó in Éirinn: the teacher who would only acknowledge Irish in their classroom, and ‘Ní thuigim Béarla’ was their mantra. It’s the only country where people take liberties and decide to call me ‘Geraldine’ without ever asking if it’s ok.
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