Overview

Appealing to a general readership, 'Synge: A Celebration' is an entertaining and enlightening collection of essays by well-known contemporary names on their personal experience of Synge. It includes an essay on 'Teaching Synge' in Dublin by Roddy Doyle, a short story by Joseph O'Connor, a short play by Marina Carr, Hugo Hamilton's meditation on visiting the Aran Islands, Colm Tobin's essay, 'New Ways to Kill your Mother'; Synge's own One Act Play, 'When the Moon has set', amongst others. This book is a delight, both for the scholar and anyone who has an interest in Synge.

Contributors

Sebastian Barry, Marina Carr, Anthony Cronin, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Hugo Hamilton, Joseph O'Connor, Mary O'Malley, Fintan O'Toole, Colm Toibin, Vincent Woods.