![]() I wasn't expecting any of it, just sharing the picture after the Peig documentary. "It took all of eight minutes for the first response to come in. ![]() All of these contributions have helped fill in the picture in small ways, but there's still much to be learned. Soon after sharing it on Twitter, a small but significant response emerged, with users identifying family members of their own, and speaking about possible trips to the island on behalf of Beamish & Crawford employees. Peig Sayers: there was more to the master storyteller than your Leaving Cert had you believe, as we saw in last week's TG4 doc This was also when Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, also known as the Irish Pimpernel, the Irish Schindler, is supposed to have saved over 6000 Allied soldiers and civilian Jews from the Nazis." He studied for the priesthood, and was ordained there in the 1940s. "That photo fell out of an album of wartime photos from Rome. MacCarthy happened across the picture, dating roughly to the 1930s, while researching the man he was to become. OJtfZCYCaN- Flor MacCarthy□□ March 10, 2021Ĭarthach, the tall fellow third from the left in the picture, was there with 'friends and boys from Farranferris', according to the bit of info on the photo's reverse, but as is often the way with these finds, the information is lost to time. The tall ‘boy’, 3rd from the left, was my uncle. The inscription on the back reads: “Peig Sayers (with priests & boys from Farranferris)”. ![]() They're nudging each other and giggling in the presence of the great Peig.įound this photo of #Peig in an old family album recently. "When you look at the photo, it looks like she's surrounded by starstruck lads, and a really dignified pose in the middle of it, that gives away that she was a big deal at the time.
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