num_pages: 160
description: Peig Sayers, 'the Queen of Gaelic story-tellers', spent the greater part of her long life on the Great Blasket Island. She was a natural orator, and students and scholars of the Irish language came from far and wide to visit her. In this book, as an old lady, she muses and reflects on the days of her youth, recounting tales which evoke characters and an era now dead, and capture the superstitions and hard life of her beloved island.
language: English
title: An Old Woman's Reflections: The Life of a Blasket Island Storyteller
titlecomplete: An Old Woman's Reflections: The Life of a Blasket Island Storyteller
genres: Biography, Ireland, History, Autobiography, Historical, Irish Literature, Nonfiction, Short Stories, Memoir
ratings_count: 174
places: An Blascaod Mór, Dún Chaoin, An Daingean, Great Blasket
publisher: Oxford University Press