Peig Sayers

Don’t dismiss Peig Sayers. Her stoic folk wisdom has plenty to offer today

Unthinkable: Ireland has been transformed economically, but the sense that everything could go pear-shaped overnight remains

Did Irish author Anne Dunlop invent chick lit in the early 1990s?

Exploring women’s literature and the formation of identity leads us from AS Byatt and Anne Dunlop to Madonna and Judith Butler

This couple lived on Great Blasket with no electricity or running water. Here’s what they did next

As caretakers on the epic Kerry island for six months, Emily Campbell and Daniel Regan were taken by the simple life, and found it hard to adjust back to city living

Peig: The boozing, partying, fighting years

No, Peig Sayers’s autobiography did not put you off Irish. How could it, when it’s such a vibrant account of a passionate life?

Isolation training: From lockdown in Dublin to life on Great Blasket

One couple found Covid-19 restrictions ideal preparation for the challenge of living on an island that measures just 1km wide

Groom: Bread and Jam Popical

The last of the Blasket evacuees: ‘We weren’t great mixers on the mainland’

Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin has published a memoir that recalls life on the Great Blasket island, the evacuation of 1953-1954 following a panicked plea to De Valera, and why he might never return