| J. M. Synge and Travel Writing of the Irish Revival Between the late 1890s and the early 1900s, the young Irish writer John Millington Synge journeyed across his home country, documenting his travels intermittently for ten years. His body of travel writing includes the travel book The Aran Islands, his literary journalism about West Kerry and Wicklow published in various periodicals, and his articles for the Manchester Guardian about rural poverty in Connemara and Mayo. Although Synge's nonfiction is often considered of minor weight compared with his drama, Bruna argues persuasively that his travel narratives are instances of a pioneering ethnographic and journalistic imagination. Giulia Bruna is a research associate of the University College Dublin Humanities Institute. She has published articles in Studies in Travel Writing , Irish Studies Review , Studi Irlandesi: A Journal of Irish Studies , and Global Literary Journalism . |