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Edmund John Millington Synge, popularly known as J. M. Synge, was an Irish playwright, poet, writer and collector of folklores. As a key figure of the Irish Literary Revival during the early 20th century, he is widely regarded by critics and scholars as the most prolific playwright in Irish literature of the Edwardian era, and by several of his peers, among them William Butler Yeats.
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culture · Irish writer and collector of folklore (1871–1909) · playwright · poet · writer · librettist · prose writer · collector · also John Millington Synge, J. M. Synge, Edmund John Millington Synge, John M. Synge, Synge
Born 16 April 1871 · Died 24 March 1909 · Q213447
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“When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen some years ago I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servant girls in the kitchen.”
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Died 1909-03-24.
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Again to nationalist disapproval, and then in 1906 at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin
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Would probably upset "a good many of our Dublin friends"
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Joined Yeats, Augusta, Lady Gregory and George William Russell to form the Irish National Theatre Society, which later established the Abbey Theatre
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And his book, The Aran Islands, completed in 1901 and published in 1907 with illustrations by Jack Butler Yeats
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Synge suffered his first attack of Hodgkin's, after which an enlarged gland was removed from his neck
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To become more involved in radical politics, and his interest in the topic lasted until his dying days when he sought to engage his nurses on the topic of feminism
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Visited Italy to study the language before returning to Paris
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And again the next year, but she turned him down on both occasions because of their differing views on religion
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Moved to Paris, where he took up poetry and literary criticism and met Yeats, and later returned to Ireland
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Published his first known work, a poem influenced by Wordsworth, in Kottabos: A College Miscellany
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Having studied Irish and Hebrew, as well as continuing his music studies and playing with the Academy Orchestra in the Antient Concert Rooms
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And Synge entered Trinity College, Dublin, the following year
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Born 1871-04-16.
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