RADIO REVIEW: Comedy of Celtic cadences
... Comedy of Celtic cadences By MOIRA PETTY One of the great poets of rural Ireland, where Catholicism comes ready-mixed with Celtic superstition, was a sophisticated Anglo-Irish Protestant. JM Synge was encouraged by Yeats to reproduce that amalgam of musicality of speech and introspection of thought that characterised the Irish peasantry. This he did to best effect in The Playboy of the ...