Today we would consider it a gross invasion of privacy to have what seemed like a free-for-all press conference and photocall at the hospital bedside of someone both seriously ill and blind. The report is a fascinating if uncomfortable read. Today we would consider it an invasion of privacy to have a press conference and photocall at the hospital bedside of someone both seriously ill and blind Photograph courtesy of University College Dublin Peig Sayers: her mournful memoir was required reading for a generation of Irish school students. PEIG BLASKET SKINShe was brought to St Anne's, on Northbrook Road in Ranelagh, a hospital for "diseases of the skin and cancer". At that point she had been off the Great Blasket for 10 years, living in Dún Chaoin with her son, Mícheál Ó Gaoithín. She had come to the city the day before by ambulance from Tralee. On Wednesday, January 9th, 1952, The Irish Times carried a story about Peig's first visit to Dublin. Peig is so synonymous with Kerry that it comes as a surprise to discover that she received visitors in Dublin on this day 66 years ago, aged 81. If you’re familiar with the name Peig Sayers the first thing that probably pops into your head is an image of a woman in a shawl, followed by one of the Great Blasket island, in Co Kerry.įamously, or infamously, it was Peig who wrote a mournful memoir that a generation of Irish people (including me) were required to study in Irish class.
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