John Millington Synge

John Millington Synge (1871–1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, and prose writer and a central figure in the Irish Literary Revival. Born in Rathfarnham, County Dublin, he studied at Trinity College Dublin and later lived in Paris, where W. B. Yeats encouraged him to draw on Irish life and speech. Synge spent time in the Aran Islands and in western Ireland, experiences that shaped his distinctive style and subject matter. He is best known for the plays *Riders to the Sea* (1904) and *The Playboy of the Western World* (1907), the latter provoking riots at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre. He died in Dublin.