Part Iii : PART III A LETTER HAS come from Michael while I am in Paris. It is in English. MY DEAR FRIEND,--I hope that you are in good health since I have heard from you before, its many a time I do think of you since and it was not forgetting you I was for the future. I was at home in the beginning of March...
Title Page : THE ARAN ISLANDS BY J. M. SYNGE With Drawings By Jack B. Yeats Dublin, Maunsel & Co., Ltd. [1907] Scanned And Redacted By Phillip Brown. Additional Formatting And Proofing By J.B. Hare. This Text Is In The Public Domain. This File May Be Used For Any Non-commercial Purpose Provided This Notice...
Part Ii : PART II THE EVENING before I returned to the west I wrote to Michael--who had left the islands to earn his living on the mainland--to tell him that I would call at the house where he lodged the next morning, which was a Sunday. A young girl with fine western features, and little English, came out...
Part I : PART I I AM IN Aranmor, sitting over a turf fire, listening to a murmur of Gaelic that is rising from a little public-house under my room. The steamer which comes to Aran sails according to the tide, and it was six o'clock this morning when we left the quay of Galway in a dense shroud of mist...
Introduction : INTRODUCTION In 1897, or thereabouts, as Mr. Yeats said in his interesting introduction to "The Well of the Saints," John Synge was eking out a scanty subsistence in Paris, endeavouring to support himself by literature, with no very definite idea as to his aims, but full of suppressed vitality...
Part Iv : PART IV NO TWO JOURNEYS to these islands are alike. This morning I sailed with the steamer a little after five o'clock in a cold night air, with the stars shining on the bay. A number of Claddagh fishermen had been out all night fishing not far from the harbour, and without thinking, or perhaps...
Author's Foreword : Author's Forword The geography of the Aran Islands is very simple, yet it may need a word to itself. There are three islands: Aranmor, the north island, about nine miles long; Inishmaan, the middle island, about three miles and a half across, and nearly round in form; and the south isl...
