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Eating Seals and Seagulls' Eggs: Scéal Pheig Sayers

To generations of Irish students Peig Sayers, is often an object of derision. Eating Seals and Seagull's Eggs is her story, largely. Meet Peig Sayers as you have never heard her before. Performed by Caitríona Ní Mhurchú and Louise Lewis.

Tá cáil ar Pheig le fada an lá. Do dhaoine áirithe, is í an seanchaí is fearr ar domhan í agus bean mhisniúil i dtimpeallacht dhúshlánach; do dhaoine eile, is bean í a chuireann i gcuimhne dóibh laethanta na scoile. Pé rud a shíleann tusa fuithi, cuirfidh an dráma seo thú ag smaoineamh faoi eispéaras na mná agus faoi staid reatha na Gaeilge freisin.

Other voices were: Michael James Ford, Janyce Condon, Donncha Crowley, Conor Madden and Pat Kinevane

actor Caitríona Ní Mhurchú reading on stage at 2025 RTÉ Short Story Competition awards night, Pavilion Theatre Dun Laoghaire
Caitríona Ní Mhurchú

Sound Design was by Niall Toner Junior and Les Keye

With special thanks to Folklore department UCD for additional sound archive

Sound Supervision was by Richard McCullough

Directed by Gorretti Slavin