Sayers Peig Bryan Macmahon Translator (9 results)

Paperback. Condition: very good. Catriona O'Connor (illustrator). reprint. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 212 pages, stiff illustrated wraps. A very good, generally clean and neat soft cover with light shelf wear and rubbing at the corner edges, binding tight, paper white, with a previous owner's name on the front endpaper.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Catriona O'Connor (illustrator). book, cover and text in very good condition, binding tight and square spine not creased, text clean and unmarked no names no stamps.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint Edition. The Talbot Press, Dublin, IRE. 1983. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Reprint Edition of the February 1974 Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light surface rubbing and scattered scratches on rear; tear on rear wrap from sticker removal. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 212 pp 8vo. Peig Sayers was an Irish author and seanchaí born in Dunquin (Dún Chaoin), County Kerry, Ireland. Seán Ó Súilleabháin, the former archivist for the Irish Folklore Commission, described her as "one of the greatest woman storytellers of recent times". Over several years from 1938 Peig dictated 350 ancient legends, ghost stories, folk stories, and religious stories to Seosamh Ó Dálaigh of the Irish Folklore Commission. The book is a story of her life on the island told in the same manner as she did her tales and legends. A clean very presentable copy.

paperback. Condition: Good. Catriona O'Connor (illustrator). Reprint. September 1983 reprint. Paper softcover has creased and worn corners. Binding is uncreased. Pages are clean and unmarked. 212 pages. LO.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. O'Connor Catriona (illustrator). Signed and inscribed on first page by translator. Tight binding, clean interior. Wraps worn on edges and corners, rather creased near spine, minor shelf scuffs. Interior unmarked, b/w illustrations throughout. 212 pp. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Pp. 212. Some light nicks to edges of d.j. Else very good in protective plast d.j.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 212 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0854520864; 9780854520862 ; LC: DA990.B65; Dewey: 914.15 ; OCLC: 9040807 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Contents : The Days of My Youth -- Affairs of Home and School -- I am a Cause of Strife -- How I Heard Stories in My Young Days -- The Day of the Races -- The Same Old Story Ever and Always -- Farewell to My Youth -- The New Life -- Christmastide -- Shrovetide Doings -- Exciting Stories in Dingle -- More Adventures -- I Return to My People -- Seamas who was called Pleasc -- A Feast an Escort and a Farewell Forever -- In Service again -- My Last Days in Service -- Match and Marriage -- A New and Different World -- The Birth of My First Child -- My Life on the Island -- Comfort and Grief -- Scattering and Sorrow -- Life Alone and Lonely -- Fireside Tales -- Adventures of Mine -- The Last Chapter ; "Known affectionately as "the Queen of Gaelic Storytellers," Peig Sayers here offers reminiscences of the daily events that made up her life (such as seal catching, collecting turf for roofs, preparing for a funeral wake) alongside the tragedies of drownings at sea, pilgrimages, and the news of the 1916 revolution in Dublin City. It is a unique record of an essential part of the oral Gaelic tradition." ; required reading for all Irish students ; remains of labels on covers ; VG. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reissue edition. 216 pages. Irish language. 8.25x7.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY. 1974. 212 pages. First American edition; first printing. Book is about fine. Bright, tight and clean. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Green cloth panels are bright and clean. Pages and endpapers are clean; no writing within aside from a tiny previous owner's name neatly written on top edge of FFEP. Original DJ shows light rubbing along edges. This is the now-classic memoir of noted Irish folklorist, Peig Sayers, in which she describes her childhood immersed in traditional Munster Irish-speaking culture, rack-renting Anglo-Irish landlords that resulted in extreme poverty, the coercive Anglicization of the educational system, devout Catholicism, and a mass emigration to the New World; or the American wake. Near fine/VG. First American edition; first printing.