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Ireland is steeped in literary history with all-time greats such as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde, Patrick Kavanagh and many more. Read about these Irish writers and their lives in this section on Irish literature.

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John Millington Synge 1871 – 1909

One of literary Ireland’s most interesting characters, J.M. Synge was perhaps the greatest dramatist of the Irish Revival. Iconoclastic, solitary Synge shook up the play-going public with his provocative dramas In The Shadow of the Glen, The Playboy of the Western World, and Deirdre of the Sorrows, the former two inciting unrest by nationalists who felt Synge was belittling their patriotic cause.

Renouncing God and religion after a youthful reading of Darwin, Synge found himself estranged from family and friends and was left to his own devices, often wandering the countryside alone.

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