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There were 'clouds of sorrow', but helping to lift them was the friendship she found in the community, which 'was like a little rose in the wilderness'.   The Blasket Islands are three miles off Irelands Dingle Peninsula. Until their evacuation just after the Second World War, the lives of the 150 or so Blasket Islanders had remained unchanged for centuries. A rich oral tradition of story-telling, poetry, and folktales kept alive the legends and history of the islands, and has made their literature famous throughout the world. 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It reveals with fidelity, humor, and poignancy a woman's life in a bleak world where survival itself was a triumph and death as familiar as life. Peig said of her son Tom s, who was killed in a fall from a clifftop: Instead of his body being out in the broad ocean, there he was on the smooth detached stone. . . . laid out as expertly and as calmly as if twelve women had tended him. Her own farewell to life had the same clear-eyed simplicity: People will yet walk into the graveyard where I'll be lying; I'll be stretched out quietly and the old world will have vanished. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeig died in 1958, when she was 85. She is buried a short distance from the townland where she was born, above the sea on the Dingle Peninsula, within sight of the Great Blasket Island. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough this American edition, \u003ci\u003e Peig\u003c\/i\u003e will reach a new international audience. 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