What is your immediate reaction when you read this?

[LookItsMeAgain]

New exhibition looks to rejuvenate the image of Peig Sayers:

www.thejournal.ie/peig-sayers-exhibition-moli-dublin-5811791-Jul2022/

Did you have to study "Peig" for your Leaving Cert exams? Did you enjoy it? Do you speak Irish? Did you come out in a cold sweat just hearing the name Peig Sayers??

"people will pick up Sayers’ work and realise “that she is really funny, and her stories are amazing – she is really mischievous and the turns of phrase are beautiful”
Yeah never going to happen.

She was a miserable auld wan, the woe is me type.

My English ex loves Peig. But she only read her as Béarla of course. The problem is Peigs Irish is very much West Kerry and 100 years old. It doesn't help you with the rest of the syllabus.
There's a funny FB page : The Moanings of Peig Sayers.

I just think she had such a hard life.
I didn't like studying the book for the Leaving but can appreciate the tough lives lived by our ancestors. Some of mine lived in the wider area. It was as tough.
Poverty and emigration.
It's a pity that because Irish is compulsory and not taught well that Peig's reputation suffers because of it.