John Millington Synge, playwright.

Photograph of John Millington Synge, playwright and Director of the Abbey Theatre 1906 to 1909. His plays In the Shadow of the Glen, Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints,and The Playboy of the Western World formed an integral part of the early Abbey Theatre's repertoire. His play Deirdre of the Sorrows was produced posthumously in 1909.