Abstract
W.B. Yeats described his friend, the dramatist John Millington Synge, in words stressing the relationship between Synge, the man of few words, and Synge, the man of a single place, Ireland, as “[t]hat rooted man, /Forgetting human words”. Synge wrote a considerable amount of travel literature on various places in Ireland, having travelled on foot the length and breadth of the island. After some time spent on the European continent Europe, Synge returned to Ireland, and on the Aran Islands, through the translation from Gaelic into English of one of Ireland’s oldest legends, the story of Deirdre, he created his own language in which he wrote all his plays. This invention, a discovery of himself and the universal meaning of his work would not have been possible without his encounter with the isles of Aran Islands.
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