The reader's interest is sustained throughout this fascinating book as J.M. Synge shows us that 'one has to go a little way only to reach people and places that are typical of Connemara' and the Aran Islands. He paints a very moving picture of the reality of life in the west of Ireland. He admires the simplicity of the people's character, their skill in many and varied crafts and their readiness to face risks and danger without any show of bravado. We hear the call of the wild and our professors are the fishermen, mountainy men and the people of the bogs. Synge's sympathy and delight with whatever was traditional enriches every page of this book. As we visit the Aran Islands, Spiddal, Carraroe, Ballina, Belmullet and the inner lands of Mayo we frequently hear beautiful and striking phrases as we meet fiery peasants in their cottages.
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978-1-85635-599-5 (9781856355995)
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One of Ireland's greatest dramatists, J.M. Synge was born in Rathfarnam, Dublin in 1871. He went to Trinity College, Dublin where he studied Irish and Hebrew, went to Germany to study music and later went to Paris. W.B. Yeats met Synge in Paris and persuaded him to visit the Aran Islands. His best-known play, The Playboy of the Western World caused a riot in the Abbey Theatre. He died in 1909.
