![]() ![]() After all, Mairie is labour, and he management.Īuthor Joseph O’Connor grew up near the house where Synge lived with his mother, and was strongly aware of its atmosphere - redolent of Edwardian Dublin. In the novel, even Yeats and Lady Gregory fail to condone his romantic attachment. Under the stage name Mairie O’Neill, she brought his memorable character Pegeen to life in the first production of Playboy. Molly Allgood was born in Mary Street in Catholic Dublin. When he fell in love with an actress, society and both families disapproved. ![]() ![]() Arguably his best-known work, The Playboy of the Western World, caused riots in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, as well as at The Abbey in Dublin. He rose to fame on the satirical social realism of his plays. Rising to prominence in the Irish literary renaissance, he worked at the Abbey Theatre with Lady Gregory and William Butler Yeats. Celebrated Irish playwright John Millington Synge was born to a landed family and studied at Trinity College and the Sorbonne. ![]()
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