Riders to the Sea by J. M. Synge is a poignant one-act play that captures the raw beauty and tragic despair of life on the Aran Islands. Through lyrical prose…

The book is an attempt at intensely evaluating the works of J.M Synge, the Irish Literary revivalist and experimental dramatist. The author Dr Vayala has meticulously appraised the entire dramatic…

A thorough re-assessment of one of Ireland’s major playwrights, J.M. Synge (1871-1909). Using much previously-undiscussed archival material, the book takes each of Synge’s plays and prose works, tracing his journey…

Between the late 1890s and the early 1900s, the young Irish writer John Millington Synge journeyed across his home country, documenting his travels intermittently for ten years. This is the…

First Printed Cuala Press lgro Collected Edition 1910 DEIRDRE OF THE SORROWS. A PLAY - PERSONS IN THE PLAY LAVARCHAM, Deirdres nurse OLD WOMAN, Lavarchams servant OWEN, Conchubors attendant and…

Edmund John Millington Synge was born on April 16th 1871 born in Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, County Dublin on 16 April 1871 the youngest son of eight children. Synge was educated…

I’ll give you a riddle, Deirdre: Why isn’t my father as ugly and old as Conchubor? You’ve no answer? … . It’s because Naisi killed him.

J. M. Synge, an Irish poet, playwright, and prose writer, was also one of the cofounders of the storied Abbey Theatre. Synge was known as a strange and enigmatic man…