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Aran Islands, The
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
Date: 20000101
Author:ROBERT WELCH
Aran Islands, The
(1907), a travel work in four books by J. M. Synge , written as a chapter of contemplative autobiography; it arose from W. B. Yeats's advice that Synge should live on the islands in order to find an artistic purpose. Between May 1898 and summer 1902 he spent eighteen weeks in all on the islands. Besides translating stories and poems recited to him, the author describes a mixture of Catholic belief and pre-Christian custom and the physical colours and texture of island life.Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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