2137 J. M. Synge 1871-1909, by David H. Greene and Edward M. Stephens (read 22 Mar 1988) Synge was born 16 Apr 1871 in a place known as Newtown Villas, then in the country but now a Dublin suburb. He was of a Protestant family, but he did not go to church after 18, to his mother's great distress. He died in March of 1909. I read this because I was intending to see a production of The Playboy of the Western
world and thought I should know something of his life. The book is well-done, though Synge had a short tough life, and much ill-health. But it is an interesting time, and made me feel I should read more about Yeats. ( )