Travels in Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara.
Author: SYNGE, J. M. (Illustrated by Jack B. Yeats)
London: Serif, 2005 (reprint). 223 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.
J.M. Synge was a tireless traveller who, while celebrating the beauties of the Irish landscape, never flinched from describing the hard, unromantic reality of rural life. Jack B. Yeat’s evocative illustrations were intended to accompany these accounts of Synge’s ravels, and they are now published together again for the first time in almost a hundred years.
Capturing the embers of a dying culture, the great playwright walks, drinks and talks with a rich assortment of country people, giving unforgettable descriptions of the puck fair at Killorglin and horse-racing on the strand near Dingle, of remote cottages and isolated fishing villages. The weavers and kelp-makers, tinkers and boat-builders of the Blasket Islands and the Wicklow Glens people these pages, which cannot fail to delight anyone who loves Ireland and her literature.
Seamus Heaney wrote of Synge in ‘Glanmore Eclogue’ that he:-
With people on their uppers. Loneliness
Was his passport through the world. Midge-angels
On the face of water, the first drop before thunder…
His spirit lives for me in things like that.
With this new edition of a classic work, both Synge’s wandering spirit and Yeat’s atmospheric drawings are available again to a new generation of readers.
In Wicklow
The Vagrants of Wicklow
The Oppression of the Hills
On the Road
The People of the Glens
At a Wicklow Fair
A Landlord’s Garden in County Wicklow
In West Kerry
In Connemara
From Galway to Gorumna
Between the Bays of Carraroe
Among the Relief Works
The Ferryman of Dinish Island
The Kelp Makers
The Boat Builders
The Homes of the Harvestmen
The Smaller Peasant Proprietors
Erris
The Inner Lands of Mayo
The Small Town
Possible Remedies
Publisher’s Note
Illustrations by Jack E. Yeats
A Wicklow Vagrant
A Man of the Glens
A Wicklow Fair
The Circus
The Strand Race
The Ferryman of Dinish Island
The Boat Builder
A Small Town
ISBN: 1897959451
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