Peig Sayers: Five things we learned from the TG4 documentary

Sinéad Ní Uallacháin spoke with folklorists, teachers, storytellers and young Gaelgeoirs, and came away with a different perception of the famously austere storyteller

Peig Sayers: there was more to the master storyteller than your Leaving Cert had you believe

While she's been remembered by generations as something of a miserabilist, spinning tales of woe and ill-fortune that made her the object of many a Leaving Cert's resentment, TG4's mission to re-examine the legacy of Peig Sayers has come to fruition with an hour-long documentary.

After a chat with her Beo ar Éigean co-presenters, where they dig up their received wisdom on the storyteller and establish the bitter taste her bleaker stories left with learners, Sinéad Ní Uallacháin sets out to find out more.