John Millington's Death

The playwright John Millington died at the age of 37. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

An important Irish playwright, poet, and author, he most famously wrote the The Playboy of the Western World, a 1907 dramatic work. His other works include Riders to the Sea, The Tinker’s Wedding, and Deirdre of the Sorrows.

He was one of eight children born into an upper-middle-class Protestant family in Dublin, Ireland.

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They’re cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

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In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.

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Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

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I’m a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

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Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.