J.M. Synge Links
“In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple, and such speeches cannot be written by anyone who works among people who have shut their lips on poetry.”
J.M. Synge
Preface to Playboy of the Western World
Critical notes on John Millington Synge and Playboy of the Western World
The Playboy of the Western World was produced for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland--a theater founded by W. B. Yeats and others to foster a new generation of Irish drama (see the chapter by Seamus Deane for further discussion). The aim of the Abbey group was to promote drama that spoke positively for the Irish people--positively and compellingly to them and for them in conjunction with their quest for independent statehood. This site contains passages by Yeats, Nicholas Grene, Declan Kiberd and others on Synge and his works.
Internet Broadway Database: John Millington Synge
List of Broadway productions of Synge’s plays. Contains links to each play, with information on theatre, actors and production credits.
Irish Writers Online – Synge
Brief biographies of Irish writers with information on their own works.
J.M. Synge Biography at the Princess Grace Irish Library
Biography contained in the Princess Grace Irish Library (
Monaco ) Electronic Irish Records Dataset. This site is under construction and this portion requires a pass word.
J.M. Synge Biography
This site contains biographies of J.M. Synge as well as links to his plays, poetry and other works.
J.M. Synge Collection at Bartleby.com
This site of the
University of
Columbia Press contains biographical and other information on Synge.
JM Synge and Achill Island, Ireland
This site discusses J.M. Synge and the importance of
Achill
Island on his works. Synge was influential in portraying life and culture in the west of
Ireland at the turn of the 20th century.
John Millington Synge -- Riders of the Sea
Biography on Synge, with a discussion of Riders of the Sea. This site contains links to other materials on Synge.
Project Gutenberg Online Texts
This site contains online versions of The Aran Islands, Deirdre of the Sorrows, In Wicklow and West Kerry, In the Shadow of the Glen, The Playboy of the Western World, Riders to the Sea, The Tinker's Wedding and The Well of the Saints.
University of Toronto Representative Poetry Online: J.M. Synge
This site contains online copies of Synge’s poetry. | 
