Peig

Sayers's autobiography was dictated to her son Micheal and published in 1936. Peig is perhaps the most famous expression of a late Gaelic Revival genre of personal histories by and about inhabitants of the Blasket Islands and other remote Irish locations. Tomas O Criomhthain's memoir an tOileanach (the Islandman, 1929) and Robert J. Flaherty's documentary Man of Aran address similar subjects. The movement swiftly found itself the object of some derision and mockery, especially among the more cosmopolitan city dwellers of Ireland - for its often relentless depictions of rural hardship. Parody of the type reached its zenith with Flann O'Brien's satire of an tOileanach as an Beal Bocht (the Poor Mouth).n