John Millington Synge

At the historic Abbey Theatre, John Millington Synge and Seán O'Casey sparked riots by audiences riled by the playwrights' untraditional takes on religion, politics and Irish rural life.

Celebrating the Mordant, Witty and Darkly Romantic Julia M. Klein 2011

The ebb and flow of the language is not dissimilar to some of the elaborate phrasings John Millington Synge wove into the speeches in “The Playboy of the Western World,” three centuries on.

Ireland’s Language Remains on Life Support - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

The ebb and flow of the language is not dissimilar to some of the elaborate phrasings John Millington Synge wove into the speeches in “The Playboy of the Western World,” three centuries on.

Ireland’s Language Remains on Life Support - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

The ebb and flow of the language is not dissimilar to some of the elaborate phrasings John Millington Synge wove into the speeches in “The Playboy of the Western World,” three centuries on.

Ireland’s Language Remains on Life Support - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

The ebb and flow of the language is not dissimilar to some of the elaborate phrasings John Millington Synge wove into the speeches in “The Playboy of the Western World,” three centuries on.

Ireland’s Language Remains on Life Support - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

The ebb and flow of the language is not dissimilar to some of the elaborate phrasings John Millington Synge wove into the speeches in “The Playboy of the Western World,” three centuries on.

Ireland’s Language Remains on Life Support - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

Not even John Millington Synge wrote dialogue that was as appalling as what I read in this novel.

Archive 2007-02-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2007

Revival reached its height with John Millington Synge, who was not only the greatest dramatist of the Irish Theatre, but (to quote such contrary critics as George Moore and Harold Williams) "one of the greatest dramatists who has written in English."

Modern British Poetry Louis Untermeyer 1931

The Irish dialect of English, vastly less important than the American, has already had its interpreters—Douglas Hyde, John Millington Synge and Augusta Gregory—with what extraordinary results we all know.

Chapter 12. The Future of the Language. 2. English or American? Henry Louis 1921

And, in 1904, the Celtic Revival reached its height with John Millington Synge, who was not only the greatest dramatist of the Irish Theatre, but (to quote such contrary critics as George Moore and Harold Williams) "one of the greatest dramatists who has written in English."

Introductory Louis Untermeyer 1920