J M Synge's papers in The Guardian provide documentary evidence of his stay in Erris and in Belmullet, where Yeats and himself were guests in the Erris Hotel. The Guardian would go on to use their descriptions as part of a fundraising campaign aimed at alleviating such poverty. Their objective was to portray the depths of poverty that was destroying communities in the area. They travelled by carriage, on foot and by hooker through Connemara and across the west coast of Mayo. Yeats were commissioned by The Manchester Guardian, an English newspaper, to write and illustrate a series of articles on the distressed state of the Congested Districts in the west of Ireland. In 1904/1905, John Millington Synge and the artist Jack B. His best known work is his play 'The Playboy of the Western World', which caused riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre.
He was one of the co-founders of the Abbey Theatre and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. John Millington Synge (1871 - 1909), was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer and collector of Irish folklore.
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