John Millington Synge Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

John Millington Synge Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Edmund John Millington Synge (/sɪŋ/; 16 April 1871 â€" 24 March

1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer and

collector of folklore. He was a key figure in the Irish Literary

Revival and was one of the co-founders of the Abbey Theatre. He is

best known for his play The Playboy of the Western World, which caused

riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre.Although

he came from a privileged Anglo-Irish background, Synge's writings are

mainly concerned with the world of the Catholic peasants of rural

Ireland and with what he saw as the essential paganism of their world

view. Synge developed Hodgkin's disease, a metastatic cancer that was

then untreatable. He died several weeks short of his 38th birthday as

he was trying to complete his last play, Deirdre of the Sorrows.Synge

was born in Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, County Dublin, on 16 April

1871.[1] He was the youngest son in a family of eight children. His

parents were members of the Protestant, upper middle class.[1] his

father, John Hatch Synge, who was a barrister, came from a family of

landed gentry in Glanmore Castle, County Wicklow. He was the uncle of

brothers, mathematician John Lighton Synge and optical microscopy

pioneer Edward Hutchinson Synge.[2] Synge's paternal grandfather, also

named John Synge, was an evangelical Christian involved in the

movement that became the Plymouth Brethren and his maternal

grandfather, Robert Traill, had been a Church of Ireland rector in

Schull, County Cork, who died in 1847 during the Great Irish

Famine.His great, great grandfather was the archdeacon of Killala [3]
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