Travels in Wicklow. West Kerry and Connemara

J.M.Sygne was a tireless traveller who, while celebrating the beauties of the Irish landscape, never flinched from describing the harsh, unromantic reality of rural life. Jack B. Yeats´s evocative drawings were intended to accompany these accounts of sygne´s travels, and they are now published together again for the first time in 100 years. Capturing the embers of a dying culture, the great playwirght walks, drinks and talks with rich assortment of country people, offering unforgettable descriptions of the puck fair at killorglin and horse-racing on the strand near Dingle, or remote cottages and isolated fishing villages.