Peig : the autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island. [The Days of My Youth; Affairs of Home & School; I am a Cause of Strife; How I Heard Stories in My Young Days; The Day of the Races; The Same Old Story Ever & Always; Farewell to My Youth; The New Life; Christmastide; Shrovetide Doings; Exciting Stories in Dingle; More Adventures; I Return to My People; Seamas who was called Pleasc; A Feast an Escort & a Farewell Forever; In Service again; My Last Days in Service; Match & Marriage; A New & Different World; The Birth of My First Child; My Life on the Island; Comfort & Grief; Scattering & Sorrow; Life Alone & Lonely; Fireside Tales; Adventures of Mine; The Last Chapter]
de Sayers, Peig, 1873-1958 ; illustrations by Catriona O'Connor. ; MacMahon, Bryan,; 1909-1998, translator; Ó Guithin, Micheál, compiler
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- ISBN 10
- 0854520864
- ISBN 13
- 9780854520862
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Stockbridge, Georgia, United States
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Dublin : Talbot Press, 1974, 1983, 1983. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 212 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0854520864; 9780854520862 ; LC: DA990.B65; Dewey: 914.15 ; OCLC: 9040807 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Contents : The Days of My Youth -- Affairs of Home and School -- I am a Cause of Strife -- How I Heard Stories in My Young Days -- The Day of the Races -- The Same Old Story Ever and Always -- Farewell to My Youth -- The New Life -- Christmastide -- Shrovetide Doings -- Exciting Stories in Dingle -- More Adventures -- I Return to My People -- Seamas who was called Pleasc -- A Feast an Escort and a Farewell Forever -- In Service again -- My Last Days in Service -- Match and Marriage -- A New and Different World -- The Birth of My First Child -- My Life on the Island -- Comfort and Grief -- Scattering and Sorrow -- Life Alone and Lonely -- Fireside Tales -- Adventures of Mine -- The Last Chapter ; "Known affectionately as "the Queen of Gaelic Storytellers," Peig Sayers here offers reminiscences of the daily events that made up her life (such as seal catching, collecting turf for roofs, preparing for a funeral wake) alongside the tragedies of drownings at sea, pilgrimages, and the news of the 1916 revolution in Dublin City. It is a unique record of an essential part of the oral Gaelic tradition." ; required reading for all Irish students ; remains of labels on covers ; VG.
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- Joseph Valles - Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
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- Título
- Peig : the autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island. [The Days of My Youth; Affairs of Home & School; I am a Cause of Strife; How I Heard Stories in My Young Days; The Day of the Races; The Same Old Story Ever & Always; Farewell to My Youth; The New Life; Christmastide; Shrovetide Doings; Exciting Stories in Dingle; More Adventures; I Return to My People; Seamas who was called Pleasc; A Feast an Escort & a Farewell Forever; In Service again; My Last Days in Service; Match & Marriage; A New & Different World; The Birth of My First Child; My Life on the Island; Comfort & Grief; Scattering & Sorrow; Life Alone & Lonely; Fireside Tales; Adventures of Mine; The Last Chapter]
- Autor
- Sayers, Peig, 1873-1958 ; illustrations by Catriona O'Connor. ; MacMahon, Bryan,; 1909-1998, translator; Ó Guithin, Micheál, compiler
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0854520864
- ISBN 13
- 9780854520862
- Editorial
- Dublin : Talbot Press, 1974, 1983
- Lugar de publicación
- Dublin
- Fecha de publicación
- 1983
- Palabras clave
- Arrah Ballyferriter Betty Blasket Blasket Island boat Brigid canoes cliff coming couple danger devil Dingle door Dunquin eating father fence fish flagstone Gaelic gave girl give go home God's Goleen gone graveyard hamlet hand hard hardship head hear h
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