Synge was the victim of a cruel paradox: those who loved his works knew no Irish and those who loved Irish despised his works. This book aims to show that Synge's command of Irish was extensive and that this knowledge proved invaluable in the writing of his major plays.

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Book Title: Synge and the Irish Language
Authors: Declan Kiberd
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04570-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1979
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-04570-9Published: 17 June 1979
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 294
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics

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