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The Aran Islands is a four-part collection of journal entries regarding the geography and people of the Aran Islands. [1] It was completed by Irish writer John Millington Synge in 1901 and first published in 1907. [2]
Synge was born on 16 April 1871, in Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, County Dublin, [1] the youngest of eight children of upper-middle-class Protestant parents. [1] His father John Hatch Synge was a barrister and came from a family of landed gentry in Glanmore Castle, County Wicklow.
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John Millington may refer to: John Millington (professor) (1779–1868), professor of mechanics at the Royal Institution, 1817–1829; John Millington (rugby league) (born 1949), English rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s; John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet
Synge's Cottage Teach Synge is the house where John Millington Synge stayed on the island every summer from 1898 to 1902, where he was hosted by Bríd and Páidín Mac Donnchadha. It was here he is said to have got inspiration for his plays The Playboy of the Western World , [ 7 ] Riders to the Sea , and many of his other works from stories he ...
In 1897, J. M. Synge was encouraged by his friend and colleague William Butler Yeats to visit the Aran Islands. He went on to spend the summers from 1898 to 1903 there. While on the Aran Island of Inishmaan, Synge heard the story of a man from Inishmaan whose body washed up on the shore of an island of County Donegal, which inspired Riders to the
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John Millington Synge (1871–1909), Irish dramatist, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore This page was last edited on 31 October 2016, at 15:31 (UTC). ...