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J. M. Synge's Ireland: In Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara
J M Synge's Ireland In Wicklow West Kerry and Connemara Author:J. M. Synge, Ann Saddlemyer, George Gmelch From the Preface by George Gmelch: "This book contains fourteen essays written by J. M. Synge around the turn of the [20th] century. The book is divided into three sections: In Wicklow, In West Kerry and In Connemara. Most of the essays were originally published in the Manchester Guardian and in The Shanachie, an Irish literary magazine publishe... more »d quarterly in the early 1900s. The essays were first collected and published as a book in 1910, the year after Synge's death. The publisher Maunsel and Co. of Dublin reprinted the book several times in the following decade. It then went out of print until 1966 when it appeared as part of the Oxford University Press four-volume collection of Synge's work. In this edition we have made a number of additions, including two introductory essays, an index and about fifty photographs...."« less