The Image of the Nation: The History of Folklore Collecting ...
Jean Marie Maguire
Autobiographies written by Blasket Islanders, which are great folklore documents, include Tomás O Crohan''s The Islandman, Maurice O''Sullivan''s Twenty Years a- Growing, Micheál O''Guiheen''s It''s a Pity Youth does not Last and Peig Sayer''s, Peig Peig is undoubtedly one of the most influential, and widely-read, Irish books of the twentieth century." Micheál O'' Guiheen, Peig Sayers son, described a visit from the collector Robin Flower, there to gather stories from his mother, one ...