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NathanFrancis__: "There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting."
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TipperaryDrama: Tonight we welcome new players from the Premier County, Hinterland, with J.M Synge's classic "The Playboy of Western World". Our sponsors tonight are Francis and Elaine Glasheen, Glasheens Old Abbey Inn Holycross, and we thank them for their continuing support! Curtain up 8.30pm!
gamut_theatre: Don't miss our final performance of Thistle & Salt: The Ireland of J.M. Synge today at 2:30pm.
Presented by Gamut Theatre and Narcisse Theatre Company
Tickets available at
gamut_theatre: Thistle & Salt: The Ireland of J.M. Synge
Final performances this weekend
Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm
Sunday at 2:30pm
Presented in partnership with Narcisse Theatre Company
Tickets at
PaulNolting: I hope you skipped the green beer and read a Seamus Heaney poem or a J.M. Synge play to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.
gamut_theatre: Wear green at Friday's performance of Thistle & Salt: The Ireland of J.M. Synge and get a voucher for a free drink at a future Gamut show!
Sound like a great deal for St. Patrick's Day!
Tickets available at
DirkPuehl: Often dark & bleak, another key figure of the Irish Literary Revival and co-founder of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, along with Yeats and Lady Gregory - J.M. Synge's last play "Deirdre of the Sorrows" (unfinished, 1909) can be read below:
RobertBohan: In 1917 he completed a series of windows based on J M Synge’s poem Queen & in 1919 produced an Our Lady & Child for the Church of Assumption, Bride St, Wexford.
gamut_theatre: Thistle & Salt: The Ireland of J.M. Synge
Final performances this weekend
Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm
Sunday at 2:30pm
Presented in partnership with Narcisse Theatre Company
Tickets at
gamut_theatre: Join us this afternoon at 2:30pm for our next performance of
Thistle & Salt: The Ireland of J.M. Synge
Tickets available at
gamut_theatre: Thistle & Salt: The Ireland of J.M. Synge is back this weekend!
Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm
Sunday at 2:30pm
Presented in partnership with Narcisse Theatre Company
Tickets available at
gamut_theatre: We had a wonderful opening weekend.
Check out Thistle & Salt: The Ireland of J.M. Synge this weekend!
Presented in partnership with Narcisse Theatre Company
Tickets available at
gamut_theatre: Gamut Theatre and Narcisse Theatre Company present
Thistle & Salt: The Ireland of J.M. Synge
Join us tonight for pre-show performances by members of the Mcginley School of Irish Dance as well as acclaimed Irish fiddler, Kieth Engle
Tickets at
gamut_theatre: Gamut Theatre and Narcisse Theatre Company present
Thistle & Salt: The Ireland of J.M. Synge
Join us at opening for pre-show performances by members of the Mcginley School of Irish Dance as well as acclaimed Irish fiddler, Kieth Engle
Tickets at
gamut_theatre: This Saturday, Gamut Theatre and Narcisse Theatre Company open Thistle & Salt: The Ireland of J.M. Synge
Join us on opening night and catch a pre-show performance by members of the McGinley School of Irish Dance
Tickets at
gamut_theatre: Next weekend Gamut Theatre and Narcisse Theatre Company open Thistle & Salt: The Ireland of J.M. Synge
Tickets available at
Playhouse_Apps: In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple. J. M. Synge
CR_Morgan: IDK, I thought my gloss of "Seinfeld episode written by J.M. Synge" was more efficient.
gamut_theatre: Thistle & Salt: The Ireland of J.M. Synge
opens March 4th
A co-production between Gamut and Narçisse Theatre Company
Tickets are available at
_mattyfoster: this unfortunate take on the best film of the last year (thanks Martin McDonagh, huge fan) reminds me of stuff I've read about early 20th century discourse surrounding J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, in that the 'high and mighty' attitude is to take (thread, 1/?)
thepainterflynn: Today in 1873 Patrick Malley is killed by his son William Malley at Calla, a remote district of Errismore Co. Galway. J.M. Synge based his story The Playboy Of The Western World on the tragedy
RVWinfo: Riders to the Sea: They are all gone now
TUDUBLIBCITY: Why did Synge's play cause such a stir? Author Christopher Collins seeks to provide an informed answer in his book, J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World. Available in the Library catalogue:
PatrickHawe: Opened on this day for seven performances.
26 January, 1907.
'Well the heart’s a wonder; and I’m thinking there won’t be our like again in Mayo, for gallant lovers, from this hour today'
Harry Clarke illuminates J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World.
PatrickHawe: In Mountjoy with seedy sinners:
Lord, this judgment quickly bring,
And I'm your servant, J. M. Synge.
The Curse / J. M. Synge
SaronikB: The Banshees of Inisherin is amazing, also a must watch if like me you're a J.M. Synge fan. Watch it just for the music and the animals!
RobertBohan: In 1917 he completed a series of windows based on J M Synge’s poem Queen & in 1919 produced an Our Lady & Child for the Church of Assumption, Bride St, Wexford.
CUP_LitPerform: New in paperback!Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge
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Solasnuacht: A hilarious cross-cultural comedy you can’t miss! Adigun and Doyle’s adaptation reimagines J.M. Synge's classic and presents the journey of a Nigerian immigrant in modern-day urban Ireland.
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Solasnuacht: A hilarious cross-cultural comedy you can’t miss! Adigun and Doyle’s adaptation reimagines J.M. Synge's classic and presents the journey of a Nigerian immigrant in modern-day urban Ireland.
Book Now at
Solasnuacht: A hilarious cross-cultural comedy you can’t miss! Adigun and Doyle’s adaptation reimagines J.M. Synge's classic and presents the journey of a Nigerian immigrant in modern-day urban Ireland. Book Now at
RobertBohan: In 1917 he completed a series of windows based on J M Synge’s poem Queen & in 1919 produced an Our Lady & Child for the Church of Assumption, Bride St, Wexford.
RobertPower: Huge congratulations to photographer Noreen Duggan whose exhibition of her work documenting our touring production of J.M Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World opens next Tuesday, November 1st at the Sean Healy Public Library in Carrick-On-Suir.
Full details on Facebook
yartsie123: Saw the Banshees of Inisherin yesterday.
Very funny in parts and desperately sad in others but a really good film
The scenery in the isles is worth seeing on its own. I read J M Synge The Aran Islands a few years back and this draws the reading together.
See it if you can
THEAGENTAPSLEY: Whether The Banshees** might finally blend them (or intended to ?), the dish's ingredients or spices may resemble :
* Craggy Island / Ripping Yarns
* The Truman Show / Seven Psychopaths
* Flann O'Brien / J. M. Synge
* In Bruges' eerie score
* The Guard ?
* Macbeth...
Playhouse_Apps: In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple. J. M. Synge
dedalusdenaries: Botheration
Take the nation
Calculation,
In the stable,
Cain and Abel,
Tower of Babel,
And the Battle of Waterloo.
J. M. Synge, In Wicklow, West Kerry, and Connemara, with illustrations by Jack Yeats (1911)
ntmdotng: New Post: Bisi Adigun’s co-adaptation of J.M Synge’s ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ runs in Washington DC, Nov 3 -20
ntmdotng: Updated Post: Bisi Adigun’s co-adaptation of J.M Synge’s ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ runs in Washington DC, Nov 3 -20
ntmdotng: Updated Post: Bisi Adigun’s co-adaptation of J.M Synge’s ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ runs in Washington DC, Nov 3 -20
ntmdotng: Updated Post: Bisi Adigun’s co-adaptation of J.M Synge’s ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ runs in Washington DC, Nov 3-20
TheHughLane: A week's worth of watercolours...
The Playboy of the Western World, Harry Clarke, 1928
Here, Clarke takes inspiration from J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, the three-act play first performed at the Abbey Theatre in 1907, and which caused an outcry at the time.
DigWuerzburg: Our 9th Synge Walk following J.M. Synge's footsteps around Würzburg. This year leading us to Hettstadt for a meal in the lovely restaurant of the Singh family (Singh Walk?)...
AlanJonesFRIBA: Dunguaire Castle south of Galway, Ireland - Built in 1520 - “Once a meeting place of the literary revivalists such as W.B. Yeats, his patron Lady Gregory, George Bernard Shaw and J.M. Synge” Photos by yours truly.
RobfromMalpas: Book on a small table in Malpas
J.M. Synge
The Aran Islands
RobertBohan: In 1917 he completed a series of windows based on J M Synge’s poem Queen & in 1919 produced an Our Lady & Child for the Church of Assumption, Bride St, Wexford.
PatrickHawe: Etain, Maeve, Nessa and Blanaid.
'Seven dog-days we let pass
Naming Queens in Glenmacnass,
All the rare and royal names
Wormy sheepskin yet retains,
Etain, Helen, Maeve, and Fand,
Golden Deirdre's tender hand'
Queens from Poems and Translations by J.M. Synge.
FeminismInIndia: As Riders To The Sea progresses, the agony of Maurya, the maternal figure represents the intersection of the personal and the political.
RVWinfo: The words are from the Irish writer J. M. Synge. His play Riders to the Sea depicts life on the Aran Islands, to the west of the mainland of Ireland. VW set Synge's work almost word-for-word in his short opera version, which many see as his best work in this genre.
sjcleahy: 5 of 5 stars to The Aran Islands by J.M. Synge
Chicago_Reader: "City Lit’s revival of J.M. Synge’s classic comedy is boisterous and intimate." | Albert Williams
RVWinfo: One thing to add, at least from this listener: it's a very moving work, especially as it moves towards the end.
J. M. Synge's play depicting the harsh seafaring life on the remote islands off the west coast of Ireland rendered almost word for word.
JedPumblechook: "A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't."
J.M.Synge, The Arran Islands
inabwue: Video of the inaugural J. M. Synge Lecture now online!
Davidfo98390724: Cottage in Inis Meáin, where playwright J.M. Synge spent a considerable period gathering material for his work The Aran Islands. I took this photo in August 2020.
RobertBohan: In 1917 he completed a series of windows based on J M Synge’s poem Queen
Playhouse_Apps: In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple. J. M. Synge
dean_frey: Edward Sorel's cover illustration for Hugh Kenner's A Colder Eye, Modern Irish Writers, 1983
Today's birthday boy, W. B. Yeats, with Sean O’Casey, James Joyce, J.M. Synge, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Lady Gregory and Samuel Beckett
ReadingIreland: Our spring/summer 2022 issue includes critical essays on Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Conor McPherson, J.M. Synge and several underappreciated Irish female dramatists including Teresa Deevy and Particia Burke Brogan.
Photo: Samuel Beckett and Rick Cluchey
DublinersThe: A translation is no translation,’ he said, ‘unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
"There's the sound of one of them twittering yellow birds coming in the spring-time from beyond the sea, and there'll be a fine warmth now in the sun"
J.M Synge
BusterBig10Inch: More Vaughan Williams first recordings, from an original HMV pressing - Magnificat and a setting of J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea. With Helen Watts and other great singers of the time. Meredith Davies conducts. From 1970.
johnstonglenn: "Joyce staked his claim on Dublin, always 'the first city in the world,' and it was left to Yeats, J. M. Synge and Beckett...to give us the landscape of the country in all its beauty, savagery, ghostliness and loneliness."
- Edna O'Brien, OTD in 2015
usasharenews: Review: Two plays by J.M. Synge light up the Irish Rep
usasharenews: Review: Two plays by J.M. Synge light up the Irish Rep
IrishLitTimes: Review: Two plays by J.M. Synge light up the Irish Rep
kafkainkashmir: “There isn’t anything more the sea can do to [her].”
-J.M Synge, Riders to the sea
cjgrool: “The Curse” by J. M. Synge, for Friday 13th. Yeats was allegedly involved in the poem’s publication.
(‘The Playboy of the Western World’ is Synge’s 1907 play.)
Tiarnans_Tweets: The Playboy of the Western World—J.M Synge, honestly not my favourite, the characters felt very cartoonish and unrealistic, the plot was a bit of a yawn as well
_adeoluu_: Soyinka has published about 20 works: drama, novels and poetry. He writes in English and his literary language is marked by great scope and richness of words. As dramatist, Soyinka has been influenced by, among others, the Irish writer, J.M. Synge,
IrishRep: Congratulations to the cast and crew of TWO BY SYNGE on a wonderful opening night!
We are so proud to be presenting two of J.M. Synge’s early masterpieces IN THE SHADOW OF THE GLEN and THE TINKER’S WEDDING running now through May 22.
Book now at
OUPAcademic: In this month's 'Taste of OSEO', enjoy some of the dramatic work of one of Ireland's most celebrated writers, in "Act 1 of Deirdre of the Sorrows by J. M. Synge" from the Oxford Drama Library.
ctraviswilliams: This point has woken me up from my previous mindset about this.
What would’ve happened to Brecht or J.M. Synge in a world where this precedent is acceptable.
They would have been literally crucified.
Michael Smith stoned to death for reciting poetry is where this leads.
RobertBohan: In 1917 he completed a series of windows based on J M Synge’s poem Queen & in 1919 produced an Our Lady & Child for the Church of Assumption, Bride St, Wexford.
FeminismInIndia: Nationalism And Motherhood As Symbols In J.M. Synge’s Evocative Play ‘Riders To The Sea’
gokhanyavuzd: The original is unfaithful to the translation.
-Borges
A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
-J.M. Synge
Poetry is the original language of the gods.
-Montaigne
Poetry is idealized grammar.
-Oscar Wilde
Playhouse_Apps: In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple. J. M. Synge
OFidhne: “… ...drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch, and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing from your heart.”
~ J.M. Synge
RobertBohan: In 1917 he completed a series of windows based on J M Synge’s poem Queen & in 1919 produced an Our Lady & Child for the Church of Assumption, Bride St, Wexford.
OFidhne: “… and there'll be a fine warmth now in the sun, and a sweetness in the air, the way it'll be a grand thing to be sitting here quiet and easy smelling the things growing up, and budding from the earth.”
~ J.M. Synge
PatrickHawe: Opened on this day, 26 January, 1907 for seven performances.
The Curse / J. M. Synge.
- To the sister of an enemy of the author's who disapproved of The Playboy of the Western World -
Lord, confound this surly sister,
Blight her brow with blotch and blister,
PatrickHawe: Cramp her larynx, lung, and liver,
In her guts a galling give her.
Let her live to earn her dinners
In Mountjoy with seedy sinners:
Lord, this judgment quickly bring,
And I'm your servant, J. M. Synge.
AbbeyTheatre: Our next exclusive Digital Membership event on Wednesday will look at the protests and riots that broke out in the opening week of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World in 1907. Pictured is Máire O'Neill (Molly Allgood) in the opening scene of the first production.
Wynn_Wheldon: Books read in 2022, number 4: In West Kerry by J M Synge. Actually just part of a book. I intend to read In Galway later in the year. So fresh and direct, so that you're there, almost.
PatrickHawe: 'Coifed with crown, or gaudy bonnet'
mnemoszune: top 10 könyv in no particular order
1. Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
2. Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (uncensored)
3. J. M. Synge - The Playboy of the Western World
4. Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
5. Szerb Antal - Utas és holdvilág
Kebabakar: I am interested in reading everything related to Ireland. Damn you, J.M Synge!
RobertBohan: In 1917 he completed a series of windows based on J M Synge’s poem Queen & in 1919 produced an Our Lady & Child for the Church of Assumption, Bride St, Wexford.
billioris: Pegeen: If you weren’t destroyed travelling, you’d have as much talk and streeleen, as Owen Roe O’Sullivan or the poets of the Dingle Bay, and I’ve heard it’s the poets are your like, fine fiery fellows with great rages when their temper’s roused.
J.M. Synge- Playboy of the WW
BellitumRedux: Maud Gonne’s birthday today. She’d have a great time virtue signalling on social media if she were around today. There would be great plámás from the followers. J.M. Synge thought her a liar & Michael Davitt was suspicious of her.
schmeterpitz: (3) On January 16th, when the company performed its most famous offering, "The Playboy of the Western World" by the late J.M. Synge. The play was regarded by many Irish patriots as an insult to Irish national character, & to the moral purity of Irish peasant women in particular.
ChefLilah: - 1911 Monday: The stage comedy, “The Playboy of the Western World” by J.M. Synge received a hostile reception in New York because of its supposed portrayal of Irish characters. Elsewhere, theatrical producer David Merrick was born in St. Louis.
moiramcpartlin: 4 of 5 stars to Shadows by J.M. Synge
AbbeyTheatre: Happy (would be) 149th birthday ‘Willie’ W.G. Fay ✨ One of the leading actors of the Abbey Theatre, Willie was also a stage manager and theatre producer. Willie created the role of ‘Christy’ Christopher Mahon in J.M. Synge’s ‘The Playboy of the Western World’.
peterjukes: Preparing for the birthday of my dear friend Jo Scanlan. Here we are, in 1983, in a production of J M Synge’s Shadow of the Glen. Looks like I’ve done something wrong again
SbrtSean: I Love Working at Georgetown!
I Just Met Professor Cóilín Parsons, the Director of Global Irish Studies.
I Learned More About Irish Literature in One Hour than I Had Learned in the Previous 50 years.
Can't Wait to Read J.M Synge's "The Playboy of the Western World (1907)"
Playhouse_Apps: In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple. J. M. Synge
carlsmythe: W.B.Yeats, J.M.Synge
AfterLetters: The weekend
My Wallet of Photographs
by J.M. Synge
WillSch71095296: The weekend
My Wallet of Photographs
by J.M. Synge
AsaYounts: Molly Allgood 1907 The Playboy of the Western World - Abbey Theatre -
