Comment on Open Thread, May 4 - May 10, 2015

Mon, 04 May 2015 07:53:11 GMT

See the chapter on Synge in Declan Kiberd's Inventing Ireland, the references to his stay on the Aran Islands: '...Synge records all this with a terrified and terrifying accuracy, because he knows that, however spare and beautiful such a culture may seem to the outsider, its costs in human terms are just too high.'

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