Vulgar words in Irish Plays and Playwrights (Page 1)

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There is but the germ of "The Playboy of the Western World" in the story told Synge in Inishmaan of the hiding there from the police of the man that killed his father, but there is old Mourteen's comparison of an unmarried man to "an old jackass straying in the rocks," which later we find transferred to Michael James Flaherty almost as Synge heard it--"an old braying jackass straying upon the rocks."

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