“We felt this was an opportunity to maybe draw attention to the folklore collection as well.” “It’s rare in museum terms to come across a place that is the single source for telling a story,” said O’Connor. Peig was one of those who featured in the collection. The exhibition began with a trip to the national folklore collection in UCD, where they were able to look at an array of equipment and files relating to the Irish Folklore Commission, which collected materials (including audio and film recordings) across Ireland from 1935 – 1971.
The fact that Sayers had a certain reputation amongst people encouraged O’Connor and MoLI to explore her work. He’s male, she’s female he’s in the middle of the most urbane, high art environment, Europe in the 20th century, the height of the avant garde. She’s off on this tiny island community that’s in the process of disappearing, on the edge of the Atlantic. Both had encyclopaedic memories.Įnglish linguist Kenneth Jackson and Peig
MoLI opened in 2019, and is a partnership between the National Library of Ireland and University College Dublin, and tells the story of Irish literature right up to today. Simon O’Connor of MoLI told The Journal: “We wanted to present an exhibition on Peig for years, since before the museum opened – you could say Peig was a glint in our eye.” Now a new exhibition – Into the Island – at the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), which will run until February 2023, aims to reinvigorate interest in Sayers’ work, as well as shine a light on the recordings of the Folklore Commission, which captured the stories of Irish people in the first half of the twentieth century. Her own father was a storyteller, and clearly Sayers picked up that gift too. Though born in Co Kerry, Sayers married a Great Blasket Island native Pádraig Ó Guithín at the age of 19 and moved to the island.
Sighs and groans would accompany any mention of that book.īut, as anyone who’s looked beyond Peig the book will know, there was a huge amount to Sayers that her Leaving Cert reputation obscured. Of course, you could also be remembered fondly as the one poet or writer whose words are still recited by people decades on.īut it’s arguable that the storyteller and seanchaí, Peig Sayers, who died in 1958, was one of those whose appearance on the Irish syllabus left her much maligned by many of those who studied her.Įven when this journalist was in school, a few years after Sayers’ book Peig was removed from the syllabus, the ghost of her reputation remained. OL2187301W Page_number_confidence 95.13 Pages 228 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.12 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210503160204 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 412 Scandate 20210423000747 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780861673551 Tts_version 4.IT CAN BE a blessing and a curse to be featured on the Leaving Cert syllabus – for years afterwards, students might remember your work as a source of frustration. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 11:00:57 Associated-names Ní Chinnéide, Máire Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40098816 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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