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J.M. Synge The Aran Islands

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Drama On One: The Aran Islands RTÉ Radio: 25th December 2016

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'I am in Aranmor, sitting over a turf fire, listening to a murmur of Gaelic that is rising from a little public house under my room'.

When John Millington Synge traveled to these remote islands upon the advice of WB Yeats in 1898, he discovered a bleakly primitive, mystical land that would inspire him for the rest of his life.

Stanley Townsend and Brendan Conroy star as J.M. Synge and islander Mourteen in Synge's account of life on the Aran Islands.

Sound Supervision: Ciarán Cullen

Producer: Aidan Mathews

In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran Islands, published in the same year, records his visits to the islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged The Playboy and his other major dramas.

Yet this book is much more than a stage in the evolution of Synge the dramatist. As Tim Robinson explains in his introduction, "If Ireland is intriguing as being an island off the west of Europe, then Aran, as an island off the west of Ireland, is still more so

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