‘The young Peig, for example, who went to work as a servant for the Curran family in Dingle was very attractive – wild, vivacious and flighty according to locals who knew her’ The Blasket author never intended her book to be a text on the Leaving Cert Irish course and should never be blamed for the criticism that was levelled at her because of this. Peig’s testimony as a woman living an exceptional life in an exceptionally harsh environment has never gained the recognition it deserved due to its more-or-less compulsory place on the curriculum.
Nevertheless, Peig was an authentic tale told by a woman, and from a woman’s perspective, of a medieval world that still existed on the Great Blasket in the twentieth century. Peig was always a tough sell and was probably murdered by a host of teachers who treated the novel as no more than an upcycled primer for the Irish language to a generation of students. Pythagoras or Euclid maybe? No… they didn’t speak as Gaeilge! Later in the programme, Irish playwright Caitríona Ni Mhurchú – who, incidentally, had been told to “phuck off back to Poland” when overheard speaking Irish to a friend on a Dublin Bus – commented that such corkscrews of cynicism should get over it and find another crutch to hang grievances on. Gorgeous and it's wonderful to hear it spoken.“ THAT bitch ruined my life,” declared a wanna-be-noticed fifty-something visitor to the Dún Chaoin Blasket Visitor Centre as he stared at the iconic picture of the Irish author whose autobiography was studied by every Irish Leaving Cert student over a period of some two decades. She said: "I'm glad I have it because it's rich and Irish all day long when we were going to school". Language after she and her siblings were "ridiculed for speaking "I didn't watch anything beforehand and I had no idea whoįionnuala relishes the chance to tackle a role in the Irish "He said it didn't matter for my character because I just Hadn't watched it from the very beginning as I wouldn't "The director Jack said I didn't need to watch it if I She said: "I never watched it even when I was in it. Show and didn't recognise any of its stars. Playing a ghost was great because I had lots of licence to do anything,Įven wearing fishnet stocking." The screen star has become a cultĬharacter on Lost but she told Gerry Ryan she has never even seen the US "The director Jack Bender was envious and said, 'I wish I Of Lost and I said I had to go to start Paddywhackery in the west of Happened that they wanted me to go back to Hawaii and do another episode She said in an interview with Gerry Ryan yesterday: "It
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