Liston Family Dingle Kerry

20/12/2025

Happy Christmas everyone from Di**le Co. Kerry.

24/11/2025

05/10/2025

25/09/2025

A lovely day out around the Ring of Kerry on Tuesday.

28/08/2025

🇮🇪 Peig Sayers (1873–1958) — The Voice of the Blaskets

🕯️ “Bhí mé i gcónaí ag éisteacht agus ag foghlaim.”
“I was always listening and learning.” — Peig Sayers

Peig Sayers was one of the last great voices of Ireland’s storytelling tradition. Born in Vicarstown, County Kerry, she moved to the Great Blasket Island after marrying a fisherman — and it was there that her gift for storytelling came into its own.

As a seanchaí, she kept the old tales alive. Ghost stories, fairy lore, hard winters, and longings for those who had left — Peig gave voice to a way of life that was already beginning to fade. What she spoke, others remembered.

Her life was later written down in Irish as Peig, a book that generations of schoolchildren would read — often reluctantly at the time. But today, it’s valued for what it is: an honest, unpolished record of life on the edge of the world.

The Blaskets were tough. The work was constant, and the comforts few. But Peig’s words carried warmth, humour, and strength — the same strength that kept small communities going through all kinds of weather.

Thanks to her, much of Ireland’s oral history was saved when the Irish language and the old ways were under real threat. The Irish Folklore Commission recorded her stories, and through them, a piece of Ireland was held in place.

Peig isn’t just a name from the past. She reminds us what it means to listen, to remember, and to speak with care.