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J. M. Synge, playwright, poet, essayist and translator, was a key figure in the Irish Literary Renaissance. Born in County Dublin in 1871, he studied at Trinity College Dublin and then at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. With Lady Gregory, William Butler Yeats and others, he was a co-founder and later a director of the Abbey Theatre. He is best known for The Playboy of the Western World, which famously provoked a riot on its opening night, and his travel writing – notably, The Aran Islands and Travels in Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara. He died in 1909, aged thirty-seven.
Paddy Woodworth was for many years an Irish Times journalist and is the author of Dirty War, Clean Hands: ETA, the GAL and Spanish Democracy and The Basque Country: A Cultural History.
J.M. Synge
Travels in Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara
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Foreword by Paddy Woodworth
Serif
London
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Serif
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First published, in a slightly different form, by Serif in 2005
This expanded edition first published by Serif in 2009
Originally published as In Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara in 1911 by Maunsel & Co. Ltd, Dublin
Foreword copyright © Paddy Woodworth, 2005, 2015
Corrections to this edition copyright © Stephen Hayward, 2005, 2009, 2015
This edition copyright © Serif, 2005, 2009, 2015
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ISBN 978 1 909150 49 2
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Contents
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Foreword by Paddy Woodworth
In Wicklow
The Vagrants of Wicklow
The Oppression of the Hills
On the Road
The People of the Glens
At a Wicklow Fair
A Landlord’s Garden in County Wicklow
Glencree
In West Kerry
In Connemara
From Galway to Gorumna
Between the Bays of Carraroe
Among the Relief Works
The Ferryman of Dinish Island
The Kelp Makers
The Boat Builders
The Homes of the Harvestmen
The Smaller Peasant Proprietors
Erris
The Inner Lands of Mayo
The Small Town
Possible Remedies
Publisher’s Note
Serif Travel Library
