John Millington Synge

John Millington Synge (1871-1909) is widely regarded as the greatest ever Irish dramatist. The lives of the people of Connemara and the Aran Islands were brought to life through his six great plays: In The Shadow of the Glen (1903), Riders to the Sea (1904), The Well of the Saints (1905), The Playboy of the Western World (1907), The Tinkers' Wedding (1908), and his unfinished mythological drama Deirdre of the Sorrows (performed posthumously in 1910).