Talk:Peig Sayers
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[edit] More about the bio?
Is there something remarkable about her biography? Is it sad, happy, adventures, sentimental, what focus?
- It is core reading for generations of youth :)
- Perhaps note could be made of how she was sent to school even as a young girl, because her mother was weakened from many years of pregnancy...
- Sad is understating it - depressing is a lot closer! Autarch 20:15, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] question
quote: "Peig was illiterate, but dictated many of her stories to Seosamh Ó Dálaigh of the Irish Folklore Commission and Dr. Robin Flower of the British Museum."
I thought she was literate in English but not in Irish, and dictated her stories to her son. EamonnPKeane (talk) 13:40, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
- I couldn't comment on the "illiterate" bit, but Peig dictated to many people. There is no conflict in the quote above. She dictated much of the folklore and stories that are referenced in Machnamh seanmhná to the folklorists AND her son, and much of the content for Peig to her son, (Mícheál Ó Gaoithín, Micheal O'Guiheen, Maidhc File). I don't think that there is anything in what is included in the sentence above that is self conflicting or incorrect. Cheers. Guliolopez (talk) 20:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
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- FYI - Máire Ní Chinnéide is often referenced as the "author" of Peig. Not Maidhc. This is largely because, while Maidhc "recorded" the stories, Ní Chinnéide wrote them down, editted them, and saw them published. Similarly, while Maidhc recorded the stories that were ultimately published in Machnamh seanmhná, Peig herself is credited as "author", with Séamus Ennis as "translator", and Pádraig Ua Maoileoin & Máire Ní Chinnéide with additional pub/editing credits. The folklore commission and British Museum types that recorded Peig's stories published, but not with a focus on Peig entirely. Mr. Flower for example (as a "Celticist") published on the Irish/Blasket tradition's of storytelling and poetry in general. Again, there's nothing in any of this that impacts the accuracy of what we have in the article. (And in a way, including it would just confuse matters.) Guliolopez (talk) 20:56, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
