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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]
In 1898, John Millington Synge started spending his summers in the Aran Islands. His 1904 play, Riders to the Sea, is set on Inishmaan. [10] He published The Aran Islands in 1907, based on his journals. [11] All six of his plays are either set in or heavily influenced by his time in Aran. [12]
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.
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
The Four Comely Saints (Irish: an Ceathrar Álainn) is a collective name for Fursey, Brendan of Birr, Conall, and Berchán, four saints in the early Irish Christian church.
John Millington Synge's play, The Playboy of the Western World is reputedly set in the area, [4] and its first act is based in a fictional shebeen (unlicensed pub) in Geesala. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The play's "savage hero" is partially based on a man convicted of assaulting a woman on Achill Island in 1894, the details of which were recounted to Synge ...
The island has had a permanent population in recent history with a population of nine families in 1911. [3]Dinish is mentioned in the essay "In Connemara" by John Millington Synge.