Creator
J. M. Synge, with drawings by Jack B. Yeats
Title
Aran Islands
Coverage
London & Dublin
Publisher
Elkin Mathews; London: Maunsel & Co., Ltd.
Date
1907
Subject
The large paper edition, one of 150 signed by Synge and Jack Yeats, who hand-colored the original illustrations.
Description
In 1902, W. B. Yeats famously advised John Synge to give up Paris and go to the Aran Islands, to “live there as if you were one of the people themselves.” Synge spent five summers on those islands off Galway’s coast and drew inspiration for his moody prose masterpiece The Aran Islands, as well as for four of the plays that became foundations of the Abbey Theatre, including The Playboy of the Western World.
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