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John Millington Synge Books
In the Shadow of the Glen (1903) , Riders to the Sea (1904) , The Well of the Saints (1905) , The Aran Islands (1907); , The Playboy of the Western World (1907) , The Tinker’s Wedding (1908) , Poems and Translations (1909) , Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910) , In Wicklow and West Kerry (1912) , Collected Works of John Millington Synge 4 vols. (1962-68), , Vol. 1: Poems (1962) , Vol. 2: Prose (1966), , Vols. 3 & 4: Plays (1968)

Online texts at Project Gutenberg


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John Millington Synge
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John Millington Synge was born in I87I in Rathfarnham, now absorbed into the suburbs of south Dublin. His father died in the following year, and Mrs Synge, left with five children and a reduced income, moved to a house next door to her mother in nearby Rathgar. John was a sickly asthmatic child, and laboured under the burden of his mother's vivid belief in hell-fire. An early love of the countryside and wildlife afforded some relief from the fond oppressions of home. Within a few years he no longer regarded himself as a Christian, but as a worshipper of a new goddess, Ireland. He gulped the patriotic balladry published in a nationalist newspaper, the Nation, and scoured the countryside in search of the Irish antiquities he read about in the writings of George Petrie.

John Millington Synge - Theatre History
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The most remarkable feature of Synge's career was its brevity. In the six years which elapsed between 1903, when In the Shadow of the Glen was produced, to 1909, when he died, he rose from absolute obscurity to world fame, and provided us with six plays on which his reputation must rest."

JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE (1871-1909)
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BORN in Dublin in 1871, Synge studied music before going to Paris to write. There he was saved for his native ireland by William Butler Yeats in 1899 and persuaded that he must write about his own land. He went off on a second trip to the isolated Aran Islands, where he studied the local dialects, characters, and folklore. He began to write plays of peasant life, employing the natural speech which he had learned. His first play, In the Shadow of the Glen, was performed in 1903 by the Irish National Theatre, of which Yeats and Lady Gregory were co-founders. In 1904, Synge's brief peasant tragedy, Riders to the Sea, was staged at this company's new home, the Abbey Theatre, and Synge became the Abbey's literary adviser. Other folk plays followed, including his comedy about a mock-hero, The Playboy of the Western World (1907), which caused patriots to riot at the theatre. Synge died in 1909.

John Millington Synge - Dublin Tourism
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Born in Dublin in 1871 and died in 1909. He received his degree from Trinity College, Dublin, then went to Germany to study music and later to Paris, where he lived for several years working at literary criticism. Here, he met a fellow Irishman, William Butler Yeats, who persuaded Synge to live for a while in the Aran Islands and then return to Dublin and devote himself to creative work. "The Aran Islands" (1907) is Synge’s journal of his retreat among these primitive people.



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W. B. Yeats, speech in the Irish Senate, June 11, 1925


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