Yeats, Jack

Jack B. Yeats, who accompanied Synge on his tour of Connemara, described him as an ardent Home Ruler and Nationalist . Synge s series of twelve articles on Connemara published in the Manchester Guardian in 1905 make Synge s socialist and anti-colonialist politics unmistakable. In the final article ( Possible Remedies ), after suggesting various economic and social reforms, Synge concludes ... 

Arnold, Bruce, John M. Synge 1905-1909 , in Jack Yeats (New Haven, CT Yale University Press, 1998) pp. 133-51. 

The Well of the Saints produced at the Abbey Theatre commissioned (with artist Jack B. Yeats) by the Manchester Guardian to write a series of twelve articles on the congested districts of the west of Ireland. 

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