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some years ago I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old
Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servant girls in the kitchen." Griffith's criticism encouraged more attacks alleging that Synge described Irish women
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Ireland". While Yeats and Lady Gregory were "the centrepieces of the Irish theatrical renaissance, it was Synge ... who gave the movement its national quality ..." His plays helped set the dominant style at the Abbey Theatre until the 1940s.
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of his writing was reflected in the training given at the theatre's school of acting, and plays of peasant life were the main staple of the repertoire until the end of the 1950s. Sean O'Casey, the next major dramatist to write for the Abbey, knew Synge's work well and attempted to do for the Dublin
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described it as "an unmitigated, protracted libel upon Irish peasant men, and worse still upon Irish girlhood". Arthur
Griffith, who believed that the Abbey Theatre was insufficiently politically committed, described the play as "a vile and inhuman story told in the foulest language we have ever
392:, "my theory of regeneration for Ireland differs from yours ... I wish to work on my own for the cause of Ireland, and I shall never be able to do so if I get mixed up with a revolutionary and semi-military movement." In 1893 he published his first known work, a poem influenced by
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Theatre" ... no drama can grow out of anything other than the fundamental realities of life, which are never fantastic, are neither modern nor unmodern and, as I see them, rarely spring-dayish, or breezy or
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of their worldview. Owing to his ill health, he was schooled at home. His early interest was in music, leading to a scholarship and degree at
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on 8 April 1909. Yeats and actress and one-time fiancée Molly Allgood (
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style. (These writings were eventually gathered in the 1960s for his
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John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections With Biographical Notes
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in 1905, would probably upset "a good many of our Dublin friends".
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was staged at the same venue in February the following year.
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Novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, essayist
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was performed at the Molesworth Hall in October 1903.
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1646:, SyngeSummerSchool.org; retrieved 27 August 2008.
27:Irish writer and collector of folklore (1871–1909)
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1830:Greene, David. "J.M. Synge: A Reappraisal" in
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1946:Collected Plays, Poems, and The Aran Islands
1931:A Centenary Tribute to J. M. Synge 1871–1909
1395:Sutton, Graham (1921). "The Abbey Theatre".
1948:. Ed. Alison Smith. London: Everyman, 1996.
1906:, Netchworth: Garden City Press Ltd., 1916.
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1859:Columbia Essays on Modern Writers Series
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1981:Irish Identity and the Literary Revival
1880:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
1789:The Transformation of Ireland 1900–2000
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1847:Hogan, Robert and O'Neill, Michael.
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671:and her adulterous relationship with
648:Synge's widely regarded masterpiece,
470:A resident of the island of Inishmaan
314:. His nephews included mathematician
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1253:Greene and Stephens 1959, pp. 96–99
1217:Greene and Stephens 1959, pp. 74–88
1151:Greene and Stephens 1959, pp. 48–52
1142:Greene and Stephens 1959, pp. 43–47
1124:Greene and Stephens 1959, pp. 62–63
94:Elpis Nursing Home, Dublin, Ireland
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2087:Library of Trinity College Dublin.
2052:Portraits of John Millington Synge
1683:"Brimming with sympathy and skill"
1663:from the original on 2 August 2020
825:The cottage where Synge lodged on
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1944:Smith, Alison. "Introduction" in
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1729:. Dublin: Booklink. p. 262.
1721:. Oxford University Press, 2009.}
1695:from the original on 26 July 2011
1637:Irish Theatre and the World Stage
1067:Greene and Stephens 1959, pp. 4–5
858:was among the first to recognise
2436:Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
2309:The Playboy of the Western World
2292:The Playboy of the Western World
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2043:John Millington Synge Collection
1808:. Oxford University Press, 1998.
1760:Dunne, Seán and George O'Brien.
1748:Synge and Anglo-Irish Literature
1657:"Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor"
1510:from the original on 25 May 2024
1328:Greene and Stephens 1959, p. 157
935:The Playboy of the Western World
650:The Playboy of the Western World
636:The Playboy of the Western World
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2426:Deaths from Hodgkin lymphoma
2344:Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge
2033:Resources in other libraries
2014:Resources in other libraries
1779:Yeats: The Man and the Masks
1764:. St. Martin's Press, 1997.
1374:Playboy of the Western World
1181:Greene and Stephens 1959, 60
1133:Greene and Stephens 1959, 35
851:were all indebted to Synge.
829:, now the Teach Synge museum
460:Aran Islands and first plays
355:Royal Irish Academy of Music
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145:Edmund John Millington Synge
58:Edmund John Millington Synge
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1983:. London: Croom Helm, 1979.
1857:. "John Millington Synge",
1659:. Josephoconnorauthor.com.
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2401:University of Paris alumni
2352:Playboy of the West Indies
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871:Synge agus an Domhan Thiar
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2009:Resources in your library
1863:Columbia University Press
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1965:Synge, John Millington.
1951:Synge, John Millington.
1355:Ferriter 2004, pp. 94–95
1052:1 September 2017 at the
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685:The Plough and the Stars
2441:People from Rathfarnham
1972:Yeats, William Butler.
1627:Mercier 1977, pp. 20–23
375:Robert Prescott Stewart
363:Trinity College, Dublin
320:Edward Hutchinson Synge
2243:Deirdre of the Sorrows
2211:The Well of the Saints
1892:Mikhail, E. H. (ed.).
1888:10.1093/ref:odnb/36402
1875:, Jonathan Cape, 1995.
1537:Mikhail 1987, p. 81-82
1385:Price 1961, pp. 15, 25
957:Deirdre of the Sorrows
950:Poems and Translations
919:The Well of the Saints
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739:Poems and Translations
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527:The Shadow of the Glen
505:in 1898 and his book,
492:Irish Literary Theatre
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438:George William Russell
242:Deirdre of the Sorrows
230:Trinity College Dublin
212:The Well of the Saints
175:. His best-known play
173:Irish Literary Revival
137:Irish Literary Revival
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2187:When the Moon has Set
2175:John Millington Synge
2000:John Millington Synge
1762:The Ireland Anthology
1573:Grene (1975), preface
1555:Masefield 1916, p. 22
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434:Augusta, Lady Gregory
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36:John Millington Synge
2235:The Tinker's Wedding
2071:UK National Archives
1969:. Cuala Press, 1971.
1600:Johnston 1965, p. 3.
1546:Masefield 1916, p. 6
1449:Corkery 1931, p. 152
1426:Gassner 2002, p. 468
1163:Ellmann 1948, p. 130
943:The Tinker's Wedding
697:The Tinker's Wedding
586:The Tinker's Wedding
270:in Glanmore Castle,
235:Synge suffered from
218:The Tinker's Wedding
2047:Harry Ransom Center
1642:2 July 2008 at the
1618:Mercier 1977, p. 23
1582:Kiberd 1995, p. 175
1417:Foster 1998, p. 361
1364:Foster 1998, p. 363
1290:Synge "Preface" to
1172:Mikhail 1987, p. 54
613:Synge's next play,
306:, and Edward's son
1976:. Macmillan, 1965.
1785:Ferriter, Diarmaid
1781:. Macmillan, 1948.
1609:Greene 1994, p. 26
1591:Yeats 1965, p. 138
1564:Yeats 1965, p. 231
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