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Title: The Aran Islands (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by J. M. Synge, Tim Robinson ISBN: 0-14-018432-5 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Insight Into The Irish Soul
Comment: "The Aran Islands" is a delightful rendition of the experiences of J. M. Synge during his visits to the Aran Islands just over a century ago. Synge's journey had been encouraged by William Butler Yeats. "Go to the Aran Islands. Live there as one of the people themselves; express a life that has never found expression." Here Synge gained an insight into the Irish character which would enrich his later works.
The Aran Islands are a chain of islands off the coasts of Connemara and Clare. Isolated by the sea, the Arans, like the Galapagos in the natural world, preserve the language and customs of traditional Ireland.
The book is a narrative of what Synge saw and the stories he heard during his stays in the Arans, told by a master storyteller in the finest Irish tradition. The language is delightful, the stories are entertaining and the insight into the Irish soul is profound. A must read for any lover of the Irish.
Rating: 3
Summary: I was named after the island
Comment: My dad was born there in the 1950's and i was named after it. not a bad place, not much to do but nice to visit. the book is informal but informative.
Rating: 4
Summary: The times are a-changing . . .
Comment: . . . on Aran as everywhere else. I have had the privilege of spending two weeks on Inish Mor, one 4 years ago and one in the summer of 2001. The difference between the two visits was enormous . . . where on the first visit I saw perhaps 5-6 cars a day on the little roads, now there are minibuses beetling along everywhere. The pony carts are strictly for the tourists. I missed the women setting up kiosks on the road, selling their beautifully made sweaters. At the same time, throughout the summer, the young people put on a nightly concert featuring traditional Irish music and dance -- and it is fantastic! So wonderful to see the beauty of the old traditions taking hold in the hearts of the young men and women.
BUT ... what is quaint to the tourist translates into abject poverty for the native. Reading Synge gives one a sense of what WAS, and how hard it has been (and still is) for families to make a go of it on Aran.
Read it with respect, and remember . . . all things are changing.
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Title: The Complete Plays by J. M. Synge, John Millington Synge ISBN: 039470178X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 August, 1960 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O'Sullivan, Moya L. Davies, George Thomson ISBN: 1879941392 Publisher: J S Sanders & Co List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Hungry for Home: Leaving the Blaskets: A Journey from the Edge of Ireland by Cole Moreton ISBN: 0141001941 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea by J. M. Synge ISBN: 0486275620 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 12 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Easter, 1916 and Other Poems by William Butler Yeats ISBN: 0486297713 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 29 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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