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The foremost account of Ireland's cultural and spiritual heritage

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; it is Ireland raised to the power of two. Towards the end of the last century Irish nationalists came to identify the area as the country's uncorrupted heart, the repository of its ancient language, culture and spiritual values. It was for these reasons that Yeats suggested Synge visit the islands to record their way of life. The resu

Table of Contents
The Aran IslandsPlace/Person/Book: Synge's The Aran Islands
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text

The Aran Islands

Introduction
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Notes

The Aran Islands

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 15 June 1992
      ISBN-13 9780140184327
      978-0140184327
      ISBN-10 0140184325
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      Essays Classic travel writing

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The foremost account of Ireland's cultural and spiritual heritage

      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; it is Ireland raised to the power of two. Towards the end of the last century Irish nationalists came to identify the area as the country's uncorrupted heart, the repository of its ancient language, culture and spiritual values. It was for these reasons that Yeats suggested Synge visit the islands to record their way of life. The resu

      Table of Contents
      The Aran IslandsPlace/Person/Book: Synge's The Aran Islands
      Acknowledgments
      A Note on the Text

      The Aran Islands

      Introduction
      Part I
      Part II
      Part III
      Part IV
      Notes

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