J.M. SyngeJohn Millington Synge, who was born in 1871, studied at Trinity College Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy of Music and then at the Sorbonne. With W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and others, he was a co-founder and later a director of the Abbey Theatre; as a paywright, he is best known for The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea. He died in 1909, shortly before his thirty-eighth birthday. Read More Read Less