John Millington Synge Quote

When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen... I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servant girls in the kitchen.


The Playboy of the Western World (1907), preface


When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen... I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house...

When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen... I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house...

When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen... I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house...

When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen... I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house...