There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
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John Millington Synge
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About John Millington Synge
Edmund John Millington Synge, popularly known as J. M. Synge, was an Irish playwright, poet, writer and collector of folklores. As a key figure of the Irish Literary Revival during the early 20th century, he is widely regarded by critics and scholars as the most prolific playwright in Irish literature of the Edwardian era, and by several of his peers, among them William Butler Yeats.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by John Millington SyngeIt is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.