THE ATHENAEUMThe Aran IslandsJ. M. Synge
Journey
The Aran Islands
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textSynge’s account of four summers on the Aran Islands between 1898 and 1901, living with islanders, learning Irish and listening to their stories. Yeats had told him to go there and express a life that had never found expression. Many of the stories he heard turn up later in his plays.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 3 hr 20 min
- Where to find it
- On the Journey shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #4381. In the public domain in the United States.