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Here is one of the classics of modern Gaelic literature12the autobiography of Peig Sayers, a
remarkable woman who lived forty years at the edge of survival on barren Great Blasket Island,
and who came to be recognized as one of the last of Ireland's traditional storytellers. Here is a
story as unforgettable as it is simple. It reveals with fidelity, humor, and poignancy a woman's life
in a bleak world where survival itself was a triumph and death as familiar as life. Peig said of her
son Tom#225, who was killed in a fall from a clifftop: quotInstead of his body being out in the
broad ocean, there he was on the smooth detached stone. . . . laid out as expertly and as calmly
as if twelve women had tended him.quot Her own farewell to life had the same clear-eyed
simplicity: quotPeople will yet walk into the graveyard where I'll be lying I'll be stretched out quietly
and the old world will have vanished.quot Peig died in 1958, when she was 85. She is buried a
short distance from the townland where she was born, above the sea on the Dingle Peninsula,
within sight of the Great Blasket Island. Through this American edition, Peig will reach a new
international audience. As Eoin McKiernan, President of the Irish American Cultural Institute, notes
in his introduction, Peig has the quotquality of honesty and sincerity, of life lived at the bone.quot
Long loved in Ireland, this autobiography will now be seen for what it truly is12one of the great
heart-cries of the Irish people.