# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peig-sayers
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:54:52.729Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peig-sayers"
name: "Peig Sayers"
slug: "peig-sayers"
description: "Máiréad \"Peig\" Sayers was an Irish author and seanchaí born in Dún Chaoin, County Kerry, Ireland. Seán Ó Súilleabháin, the former Chief archivist for the Irish Folklore Commission, described her as \"one of the greatest woman storytellers of recent times\"."
tagline: "Irish writer (1873–1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peig_Sayers_c1945.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1873"
deathDate: "1958"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.59
  momentum:             6.5311004784689
  historical:           8.874412
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 222
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/5785316"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peig_Sayers"
    title: "Peig Sayers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peig_Sayers"
    title: "Peig Sayers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peig_Sayers"
    title: "Peig Sayers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peig_Sayers"
    title: "Peig Sayers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peig_Sayers"
    title: "Peig Sayers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peig_Sayers"
    title: "Peig Sayers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peig_Sayers"
    title: "Peig Sayers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peig_Sayers"
    title: "Peig Sayers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peig_Sayers"
    title: "Peig Sayers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peig_Sayers"
    title: "Peig Sayers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3322810"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump