Synge, Edmund John Millington
- Synge, Edmund John Millington
(1871-1909)
Born in Rathfarnham, Dublin, the son of a Protestant barrister who died when Edmund was a year old. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1892, then went to Germany to study music but chose literature instead, and lived in France and Italy, honing up his natural gift for languages. W.B. Yeats (see entry) suggested that Synge went to the Aran Islands in order to write about the culture there. After The Aran Islands was published in 1907, he we went on to write tragedies and comedies and translate the works of Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374), François Villon (1431-1465), and Walther (or Walter) von der Vogelweide (?1170?1230). His last months of life were spent in writing and rewriting the unfinished three-act play Deirdre of the Sorrows, which was acted at the Abbey Theatre on 13 Janunary 1910. He died unmarried at a private nursing home in Dublin and was buried in a family tomb at the Protestant Mount Jerome general graveyard at Harold's Cross, Dublin. Some of his poems: "Beg-Innish," "I've Thirty Months," "On a Birthday," "The Curse," "To the Oaks of Glencree," "Winter."
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British and Irish poets. A biographical dictionary.
William Stewart.
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