A 1960s American folk music legend weaves stories of a girlhood on “the singing streets” of Ireland, marriage in Scotland, and arrival in America
Tender and evocative true stories of growing up in Belfast before the Troubles
Maggi Kerr Peirce,A Belfast Girl.Marion,
MI: ?????? Parkhurst ??????? Brothers ?????? Publishers, ??????? 2013.
ISBN 9781624-910173.
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Those of us who have been lucky enough over
the years to hear Maggi Peirce's stories, told in a
rich Belfast voice that belies her decades of residence
in Massachusetts, have heard a few of these vivid
vignettes- The Large Stuffed Rabbit, The Most
Beautiful Doll in the World -and will delight in
revisiting them. Those who haven't had the privilege of hearing Maggi in person will meet
her beautifully here, in this wee
book of twenty poignant, funny,
thoughtful stories that bring to life the
mid-century Northern Irish world in
which, as Maggi writes, our parents
hid the world from us but we didn't
know it.
Jo Radner (jradner@american.edu) for Storytelling Magazine
Maggi Kerr Peirce sang her native Irish ballads from the Newport Folk Festival to Puget Sound during the 1970s. She performed on many of the same stages as Pete Seeger, the Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary. Her Irish stories have graced storytelling festivals coast-to-coast. She lives in Fairhaven, Massachusetts with her husband, Ken and the support of her nearby daughter, Cora, and son, Hank.
“I am a Belfast girl: reared in the singing streets of Northern Ireland's capital city, married in Scotland and finally arriving in America in 1964, where kindly circumstances hailed me in the late 1960s as a singer and storyteller of her native land.” So Maggi Kerr Peirce sums up her remarkable life as a bearer of her native lc(
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