Travelling Ireland: Essays, 1898–1908 by J. M. Synge
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Overview: This volume collects all of Synge’s topographical essays in their original newspaper and periodical publication form in the “Manchester Guardian”, “The Gael” and “The Shanachie”, complete with illustrations, most of them by Jack B. Yeats. There is a substantial editorial introduction with detailed annotation placing the work in the historical context of its period, 1898-1908. Social, political and aesthetic perspectives are explored in the essays, which describe and evoke the Ireland through which Synge travelled. Eighteen of the essays concern the Aran Islands and the west of Ireland of the Congested Districts, from Donegal down to Galway, describing famine relief projects, ferrymen, kelp gatherers, boat-builders, peasant proprietors, small shopkeepers, races and fairs. Nine others deal with County Wicklow and West Kerry, their vagrants, landlords and pastimes. All are enlivened by maps, photographs by Synge himself, title-pages, and above all by Jack Yeats’ inimitable drawings.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Essays
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