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Was Peig a work of fiction?

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  • #32
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    It's always interesting when a family is blown up in their own home. Amongst other things, obviously.

    Don't remember that bit - but it's possible. Still, a story in which a family being blown up in their own home fails to get a teenager's attention is not doing it;s job.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #33
    Insect Overlord
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    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    Don't remember that bit - but it's possible. Still, a story in which a family being blown up in their own home fails to get a teenager's attention is not doing it;s job.

    I think it's only mentioned in passing in Peig, to be fair to you. Probably a reference to the funeral or something. I read it last summer and forgot most of it straight after. :pac: A walking tour on the Dingle Peninsula is where I got most of that story.


  • #34
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    It's always interesting when a family is blown up in their own home. Amongst other things, obviously.


    No just Darwin in action.


    Nearest I ever heard me mother swear was talking to her about Peig


    Suffice to say as a native speaker from Kerry she didn't have one good word to say about the book, or the fools in Dublin who put it on the curriculum.


    So which book do modern teenagers burn in a ritual kind of way after the leaving


  • #35
    Livia Flat Ramp
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    it was 2001 when i did my LC, we did an irish book about some fella who moved to the states. or was it england? one of them anyway :rolleyes: no peig


  • #36
    LoYL
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    who the fug wrote: »
    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    It's always interesting when a family is blown up in their own home. Amongst other things, obviously.

    So which book do modern teenagers burn in a ritual kind of way after the leaving

    Lol. Effort. Ugh.


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  • #37
    neil_hosey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭neil_hosey


    the irony, people going on and on about peig being about bitching and moaning your life away..

    spend 5 minutes in afterhours and you would think you are in the book


  • #38
    Gran Hermano
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    Striapach ab ea.


  • #39
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    was more a case of non fiction than fiction. did it in 1985.


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