Over several visits Synge lived among the Irish-speaking fishermen and their families on Inishmaan and the other Aran Islands, thirty miles out in Galway Bay. He records their curraghs and storms, their work, their talk and their old stories, the keening at funerals and the ways a remote community was beginning to change.
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