"It's Pegeen I'm seeking only, and what'd I care if you brought me a drift of chosen females, standing in their shifts itself maybe, from this place to the Eastern World."

The first performance of Synge's Playboy of the Western World caused a furor in the repressed Dublin of January 1907. 'The first two acts were well received, so much so that Lady Gregory sent W.B. Yeats a telegram in Scotland, "Play great success,"
but Act Three provoked such an uproar that she sent off another telegram, 'Audience broke up in disorder at the word shift.'

(read more)

John Millington Synge - Prints

Limited edition of 250 Giclée prints, signed by the artist, are available for $160 each (plus $20 shipping), unframed.

Image is 14" wide by 21" high.

To purchase, or to see other prints,
click here.

Contact Barrie Maguire            Back

INDEX of Irish Art - Paintings and Prints of Ireland:

IRISH WRITERS - James Joyce  - W.B. Yeats - Oscar Wilde - John B. Keane - Samuel Beckett - Michael Hartnett - J. M. Synge - George Bernard Shaw - Brendan Behan - Lady Gregory - Sean O'Casey  - Seamus Heaney - Patrick Kavanagh

IRISH QUILTS: Céide Fields - The Way Home - I Will Give You Ireland - Marin's Quilt - Brigid's Cloak - Patrick's Quilt - Desmond's Quilt

HORSES:  Listowel Trader - Connemara Lady - The Negotiation - White Foal - The Tackled Pony - Piebald-soul - Listowel Pony - Connemara Pony - Mulranny Pony - Cooling Down - A Unicorn in Clare - Travelers - Balleyclare #1 - Balleyclare #2 -Whitethorn Mare - Innishmaan Pony - Galway Pony - White Connemara Ponies

MUSICIANS - Grafton Street - Fiddler Joe - Joe Murphy - Patsy Whelan - Bodhran Player - Galway Street Musician - After the Aire - Martin Hayes - The Unfinished Violin

GOLF: Celtic Golf - Celtic Links

RUST:  Westerlea: Clifden - Draioght Na Mara: Dingle - Yeoman Bontrup: Loch Linnhe - Kilmainham Gaol - St. Brendan's Cove - Okie - Two Orchids: Burtonport