The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge. Volume I: 1871-1907

1985 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
A. M. Gibbs ◽  
Ann Saddlemyer ◽  
John Millington Synge
Keyword(s):  
John Millington Synge

‘listening to this rude and beautiful poetry’: John Millington Synge as Song Collector in the Aran Islands

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-259
Author(s):  
Deirdre Ní Chonghaile
Keyword(s):  
John Millington Synge ◽  
Lady Gregory ◽  
Aran Islands

To date, little attention has been given to the songs in Synge's The Aran Islands, items that Tim Robinson imagines are not ‘fully thought into the texture of the work’. They come from a collection of songs in Irish and in English that was created by Synge in Inis Oírr in 1901 in the company of the local poet Mícheál Ó Meachair. This essay investigates Synge's song collection and the local singers and poets whom he met, including Seághan Seoige of Baile an Fhormna, Inis Oírr and Marcuisín Mhichil Siúinéara Ó Flaithbheartaigh of Cill Rónáin, Árainn. It examines how the music of Aran impacted on Synge during his four visits between 1898 and 1901, what his collection tells us about the song tradition of Aran, and what inspired him to collect songs there. Did Douglas Hyde's Love Songs of Connacht prompt him to create his own collection? What parts did Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats play? Considering Synge was a trained musician and composer, why did he not collect the airs that accompanied the songs? Recognising the influence of sean-nós song on Synge's dramatic oeuvre, this essay questions whether or not the songs of Aran affected his work.

John Millington Synge. La maison, le sublime, la parole

2008 ◽  
Vol N�47 (1) ◽  
pp. 315
Author(s):  
J�r�me Th�lot
Keyword(s):  
John Millington Synge

“Riders to the Sea”/“La Cavalcata al Mare” by John Millington Synge

2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1114-1118
Author(s):  
Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli
Keyword(s):  
John Millington Synge

Omós do John Millington Synge

Comhar ◽  
1953 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Máirtín Ó Direáin
Keyword(s):  
John Millington Synge

More Letters by John Millington Synge

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Ann Saddlemyer
Keyword(s):  
John Millington Synge ◽  
The West ◽  
West Of Ireland

In May 1905 John Millington Synge received a request from C.P. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian, to tour the Congested Districts in the west of Ireland, and send his observations as a series of personal letters to the paper. Doubtless urged by their common friend John Masefield, Scott suggested that Jack Butler Yeats might join the playwright as illustrator. Four letters from Synge to Scott concerning the arrangements were not included in The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge when first published in 1968–9. This omission is finally repaired here.

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