The Aran Islands

by J. M. Synge

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The Aran Islands by J. M. Synge has an introduction saying there are three islands: Aranmor, the north island, Inishmaan, the middle island, and the south island, Inishere. The introduction says the islands lie about thirty miles from Galway, up the centre of the bay. An old man comes to see the writer and says he has come back to live in a bit of a house with his sister, and that the island is not the same at all to what it was.

The writer says he has decided to move on to Inishmaan, where Gaelic is more generally used, and the life is perhaps the most primitive that is left in Europe. In the boys' school, where the writer sometimes looks in, the children surprise him by their knowledge of English, though they always speak in Irish among themselves. The writer clambers down hastily and finds, to his amazement, a worn golf-ball.

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J. M. Synge

John Millington Synge (1871-1909) was an Irish playwright and poet at the heart of the Irish Literary Revival and the Abbey Theatre. He built his plays from the speech and lives of country people in the west of Ireland, producing a small body of work that reshaped modern drama.

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Author: J. M. Synge
Pages: 108
Language: English
Genre: Travel Memoir
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