John Millington Synge and Pádraic Ó Conaire: Unexpected Fellow Travellers between Romanticism, Realism and Beyond

Abstract

The article compares two key representatives of the Irish Literary Revival and the Gaelic Revival, J.M. Synge and P. Ó Conaire.

The main focus is on the reflection of various streams of European literary thought in the oeuvres of both authors.

Keywords

• John
• Millington
• Synge
• Pádraic
• Conaire
• Romanticism
• Realism