A Landlord's Garden In County Wicklow : A Landlord's Garden in County Wicklow A STONE'S throw from an old house where I spent several summers in County Wicklow, there was a garden that had been left to itself for fifteen or twenty years. Just inside the gate, as one entered, two paths led up through a couple of strawberry beds, half...
The People Of The Glens : The People of the Glens HERE and there in County Wicklow there are a number of little known places--places with curiously melodious names, such as Aughavanna, Glenmalure, Annamoe, or Lough Nahanagan--where the people have retained a peculiar simplicity, and speak a language in some ways more...
Notice : Notice In WEST KERRY was partly re-written from articles which appeared in the "Shanachie, "where some of IN WICKLOW also appeared; the remainder of the Wicklow articles were originally published in the Manchester Guardian. The publishers desire to thank the editors of the "Manchester Guardi...
On The Road : On the Road ONE evening after heavy rains I set off to walk to a village at the other side of some hills, part of my way lying along a steep heathery track. The valleys that I passed through were filled with the strange splendour that comes after wet weather in Ireland, and on the tops...
Title Page : IN WICKLOW AND WEST KERRY BY JOHN M. SYNGE [b 1871 D. 1909] Dublin, Maunsel & Co., Ltd. [1912] 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 Statement...
Glencree : Glencree THIS morning the air is clear, and there is a trace of summer again. I am sitting in a nook beside the stream from the Upper Lake, close down among the heather and bracken and rushes. I have seen the people going up to Mass in the Reformatory, and the valley seems empty of life. I have...
Untitled : IN WICKLOW AND WEST KERRY BY JOHN M. SYNGE [1912] Title Page Notice The Vagrants of Wicklow The Oppression of the Hills On the Road The People of the Glens At a Wicklow Fair A Landlord's Garden in County Wicklow Glencree In West Kerry
At A Wicklow Fair : At a Wicklow Fair The Place and the People A YEAR or two ago I wished to visit a fair in County Wicklow, and as the buying and selling in these fairs are got through very early in the morning I started soon after dawn to walk the ten or twelve miles that led to Aughrim, where the fair was to be...
The Vagrants Of Wicklow : The Vagrants of Wicklow SOME features of County Wicklow, such as the position of the principal workhouses and holiday places on either side of the coach road from Arklow to Bray, have made this district a favourite with the vagrants of Ireland. A few of these people have been on the roads...
The Oppression Of The Hills : The Oppression of the Hills AMONG the cottages that are scattered through the hills of County Wicklow I have met with many people who show in a singular way the influence of a particular locality. These people live for the most part beside old roads and pathways where hardly one man passes...
In West Kerry : In West Kerry AT Tralee station--I was on my way to a village many miles beyond Dingle--I found a boy who carried my bag some way along the road to an open yard, where the light railway starts for the west. There was a confused mass of peasants struggling on the platform, with all sort of baggage...
