Peig Sayers was a contemporary of James Joyce and like him, she had an exceptional mastery of language but her greatest achievement was as an oral storyteller, in her native Irish language, a new exhibition at the Musuem of Literature Ireland (MOLI) tells us more about her captivating story.
Best known for her autobiography, Peig, a Scéal Féin, first published in 1936 and on the Irish school curriculum from 1962-1995. Peig the book does not give a full picture of Sayers, often heralded as the greatest storyteller in a community of great storytellers, the Blasket Islands and Dún Chaoin. RTÉ Arena takes a deeper dive above....
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