Raised in hiding on Slieve Fuadh by her nurse Lavarcham, Deirdre is meant to become the bride of Conchubor, High King of Ulster. She chooses young Naisi instead and runs off with him and his brothers, the Sons of Usna, to Scotland, until an offer of peace calls them home to Emain.
Synge’s last play, left unfinished at his death in 1909, in his richly poetic Irish speech. Download the free EPUB.