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Edmund John Millington Synge (/ s ɪ ŋ /; 16 April 1871 – 24 March 1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival.
J.M. Synge, leading figure in the Irish literary renaissance, a poetic dramatist of great power who portrayed the harsh rural conditions of the Aran Islands and the western Irish seaboard with sophisticated craftsmanship.
J.M. Synge, born in Rathfarnham, outside Dublin, Ireland, is the most highly esteemed playwright of the Irish literary renaissance of the early 20th century. Although he died just short of his 38th birthday and produced a modest number of works, his writings have made an impact on audiences, writers, and Irish culture.
May 9, 2019 · When, in 1893, John Millington Synge (16 April 1871 – 24 March 1909) was choosing between musical and literary careers, two seminal documents were published that would profoundly affect his decision and form the character of his subsequent work.
John Millington Synge was born in Rathfarnham, Dublin in 1871 into an evangelical Church of Ireland family who previously owned substantial estates in Co. Wicklow. As a young man, Synge's exposure to the works of Darwin and Marx led him to trade (in his words) the "kingdom of heaven" for the "kingdom of Ireland".
Mar 19, 2021 · 2021 marks 150 years since the birth of the playwright and poet John Millington Synge. Synge’s life may have been short and tragic but it was lived to the full, driven by an open-minded,...
John Millington Synge (1871-1909) Nicholas Grene. It was his famous first meeting with the poet W.B. Yeats that turned J.M. Synge into a legend of the Irish Literary Revival. Encountering the somewhat younger writer in Paris in December 1896, Yeats claims to have given him crucial advice on his career: 'Give up Paris.
Synge, (Edmund) John Millington (16 April 1871–1909), writer, was born 16 April 1871 in Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin, into an Anglo-Irish family of ecclesiastics and landlords, descended from Bishop Edward Synge (qv) (d. 1678), whose fortunes had declined through the nineteenth century.
May 21, 2018 · The author of The Playboy of the Western World (1907), Edmund John Millington Synge is considered the greatest dramatist of the Irish Literary Renaissance.
Aug 24, 2022 · Riders to the Sea by John Millington Synge. Introduction of the Play. “Riders to the Sea” is a one-act tragedy written by Irish Literary Renaissance playwright John Millington Synge. The play is set on the Aran Islands. Like all of Synge’s plays, it is known for capturing the poetic language of rural Ireland.
