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Synge's paternal grandfather, also named John Synge, was an evangelical Christian involved in the movement that became the Plymouth Brethren, and his maternal grandfather, Robert Traill, was a Church of Ireland rector in Schull, County Cork, who died in 1847 during the Great Irish Famine.
Airing on the RTÉ One television channel in Ireland, "Today" debuted in November 2012, [2] and replaced previous RTÉ day-time lifestyle shows such as The Daily Show and Four Live. Today was initially hosted each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday by RTÉ presenters Maura Derrane and Dáithí Ó Sé being broadcast from RTÉ ...
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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
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
John Millington Synge was an Irish dramatist, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore. He was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the cofounders of the Abbey Theatre . He is best known for the play The Playboy of the Western World , which caused riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey.
The Playboy of the Western World is a three-act play written by Irish playwright John Millington Synge, first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 26 January 1907. It is set in Michael James Flaherty's public house in County Mayo during the early 1900s. It tells the story of Christy Mahon, a young man running away from his farm, claiming ...
The play, based on Irish mythology, in particular the myths concerning Deirdre, Naoise, and Conchobar, was unfinished at the author's death on 24 March 1909. It was completed by W. B. Yeats and Synge's fiancée, Molly Allgood [1] and first performed at the Abbey Theatre by the Irish National Theatre Society on 13 January 1910, with Allgood as ...