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I had often spent a day walking with John Synge, but a year or two ago I travelled for a month alone through the west of Ireland with him. He was the best companion for a roadway any one could have, always ready and always the same; a bold walker, up hill and down dale, in the hot sun and the pelting rain. I remember a deluge on the Erris Peninsula, where we lay among the sand hills and at his suggestion heaped sand upon ourselves to try and keep dry.
In W. B. Yeats, Synge and the Ireland of His Time (Dundrum, Dublin: Cuala Press; New York: Mitchell Kennerly, 1911) pp. 39–43. Originally Published in New York Evening Sun, and condensed in Irish Nation (Dublin) I, no. 33 (14 Aug 1990) 7.
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See J. M. Synge, ‘At a Wicklow Fair: The Place and the People’, Manchester Guardian (9 May 1907) p. 12.
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Yeats, J.B. (1977). With Synge in Connemara. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) J. M. Synge. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03016-3_13
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