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J.M. SYNGE AND THE IRELAND OF HIS TIME

On Saturday, January 26th, 1907, I was lecturing in Aberdeen, and when my lecture was over I was given a telegram which said, Play great success. It had bee from Dublin after the sed Act of The Playboy of the Western World, then being performed for the first time. After one in the m, my host brought to my bedroom this sed telegram, Audience broke up in disorder at the word shift. I knew no more until I got the Dublin papers on my way from Belfast to Dublin on Tuesday m. On the Monday night no word of the play had been heard. About forty young men had sat on the fros of the pit, and stamped and shouted and blown trumpets from the rise to the fall of the curtain. Ouesday night also the forty young mehere. They wished to silence what they sidered a slander upon Irelands womanhood. Irish women would never sleep uhe same roof with a young man without a chaperon, nor admire a murderer, nor use a word like shift; nor coul……(内容加载失败!)

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