Peig sayers school archive#

Peig was demoted to an optional autobiography on the syllabus in the mid-1990s. Peigwas compulsory on the Irish curriculum, according to Robbie Cronin, an Irish-language teacher of 25 years and the ASTI's Irish-language subject convenor. Today there are fewer than 50 schools studying her autobiography, compared to the days when Had I known in advance half, or even one-third of what the future had in store for me, my heart wouldn't have been as gay or as courageous as it was in the beginning of my days.' The opening doleful lines of her 1936 book, as dictated to her son, Maidhc, read: 'I'm an old woman now with one foot in the grave and the other on its edge. Peig,was enough to induce despair and anguish in the hearts of many Leaving Cert students. The version of Peig depicted in her autobiography, Peig was the headline act on the Irish curriculum throughout the 1960s and 1970s, until she became the butt of jokes and a figure of ridicule. 'It's a rehabilitation of Peig,' says Malachy Moran, RTГ‰ Radio's manager of audio services and archives. It presents a fresher, earthier version of Peig, where her sense of fun and warmth come to the fore.

Peig sayers school archive#

The Blasket Islander is to be re-introduced to the public through a series of lectures and broadcasts throughout the next week.ДЄ new online archive exhibition has been launched on RTГ‰'s website using rare recordings of Peig made by SГ©amus Ennis and SeГЎn Mac Reamoinn in 1947. PEIG SAYERS, the great storyteller who died 50 years ago on Monday, and who was the scourge and torment of Leaving Cert students for decades, is undergoing a makeover.

Peig Sayers was long the bane of Irish secondary-school students, but now, on the 50th anniversary of her death, the great Blasket Island storyteller is undergoing something of a reappraisal, writes