جون ملنجتون سنج

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مجاله: مؤلف ومسرحي عظيم- ايرلندي.

John Millington Synge (1871-1909) Irish dramatist, author and poet contributed greatly to the Irish dramatic movement.

John Millington Synge was born on 16 April 1871 at Rathfarnham, near Dublin, Ireland. His father, John Hatch Synge (1823–1872) died a year after he was born.

His mother, Kathleen, née Traill (1838–1908) decided to move her family to Rathgar, in Orwell Park, next door to her own mother. Synge and his siblings Robert, Edward, Annie and Samuel spent the summers at a country rental home, the Greystones, in Co. Wicklow. Much more of a listener than a talker, young Synge, who suffered ill-health all his life spent much time outside watching birds and collecting their eggs around Rathfarnham Castle, outings that he kept a diary of.
I knew the stars, the flowers, the birds,
The grey and wintry sides of many glens,
And did but half remember human words,
In converse with the mountains, moors and fens
He was very close to his cousin Florence Ross, who accompanied him on many of his daily explorations. Later in life he would join the Dublin Naturalist's Field Club.
Synge has written that the first crisis in his faith happened when he was very young, possibly around the time his father died of smallpox. Images of Hell struck fear in his heart and tormented him in waking and in dreams. He was grasping with the concepts of eternal pain and damnation. Reading the theories of Charles Darwin, especially his comparison of the similarities between a man's hand a bat's wing contributed to his confusion and doubt and he would later become alienated from his family over this.