• Obituary, in The Irish Times (25 March 1909), accompanied by a leader on the subject and a report on the ‘Funeral of Mr J. M. Synge’ (pp.6 & 8).
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• Ernest A. Boyd, ‘The Impulse Towards Folk Drama: J. M. Synge and Padraic Colum’ [Chap. V], in The Contemporary Drama of Ireland (Boston: Little Brown 1917), pp.88-121; espec. 2: ‘The Plays of J. M. Synge’ (pp.92-110.]
• Padraic Colum, ‘Memories of Synge’, in The Literary Review [of New York Evening Post ] II (4 June 1921), pp.1-2.
• Yeats, ‘More Memories’, in The Dial, LXXIII [Chicago] (Sept. 1922), pp.283-302 [incl. his description of the meeting with Synge in Paris, pp.298-301], Do ., rep. in The Trembling of the Veil 1922), and in Autobiographies (1926), &c.
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• Daniel Corkery, Synge and the Anglo-Irish Literature: A Study (Cork UP; London: Longmans, Green 1931; Cork UP 1966).
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• Thomas R. Whitaker, ed., Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Playboy of the Western World (NJ: Prentice Hall 1969).
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• [Q. auth.,] ‘A Check List of First Editions of Works by John Millington Synge and George William Russell’, TCD Annual Bulletin (1956), pp.4-9.
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• David H. Greene, ‘An Adequate Text of J. M. Synge’, in Modern Language Notes, LXI [Baltimore] (Nov. 1946), pp.466-67.
• Benedict Kiely, ‘Liam O’Flaherty: A Story of Discontent’, in The Month, [n.s.] II (Sept. 1949), c.p.185.[remarks the O’Flaherty was essentially a stranger in mainland Ireland].
• Synge Special Number, The Envoy, No. 16 (March 1951), [includes contribs. by Patrick Kavanagh, Owen Quinn, et al.].
• Irving D. Suss, ‘The Playboy Riots’, in Irish Writing, 18 (March 1952), pp.39-42.
• Donald Davie, ‘On the Poetic Diction of J. M. Synge’, Dublin Magazine, Vol. 27 [new series] (1952), pp.32-8.
• Raymond Williams, ‘J. M. Synge’, in Drama: From Ibsen to Eliot (London: Chatto and Windus 1952), pp.154-74.
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• Herbert Howarth, The Irish Writers 1880-1940 (London: Rockliff 1958) [q.pp.]

• Alan Price, Synge and Anglo-Irish Drama (London: Methuen 1961), xii, 236pp.
• Patricia Meyer Spacks, ‘The Making of the Playboy’, in Modern Drama IV (Dec. 1961), pp.314-23.
• T. R. Henn, intro. to.“The Playboy of the Western World”, in From the Plays and Poems of J. M. Synge, ed. Henn (London: Methuen & Co. 1963), pp.56-67.
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• Howard D. Pearce, ‘Synge’s Playboy as Mock-Christ’, in Modern Drama, 8, 3 (Dec. 1965), pp.303-10.
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• Diane E. Bessie, ‘Little Hound in Mayo’, in Dalhousie Review, XLVIII (Autumn 1968), pp.372-83.
• James F. Kilroy, ‘The Playboy as Poet’, in PMLA, LXXXIII (May 1968), pp.439-42.
• Malcolm Pittock, ‘Riders to the Sea ‘; in English Studies, XLIX (Oct. 1968), pp.445-49.
• Stanley Sultan, ‘A Joycean Look at The Playboy of the Western World ‘, in The Celtic Master, ed. Maurice Harmon [1st Joyce Symposium in Dublin 1967] (Dolmen Press 1969), pp.45-55.
• Paul M. Levitt, ‘The Structural Craftsmanship of J. M. Synge’s Riders to the Sea’, in Éire-Ireland, 4, 1 (Spring 1969), pp. 53-61.

• Jeanne Flood, ‘The Pre-Aran Writings of J. M. Synge’, in Éire-Ireland, 5, 3 (Autumn 1970), pp.63-80.
• Seán McMahon, ‘Clay and Worms’, in Éire-Ireland, 5, 4 (Winter 1970), pp.116-43.
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• Robin Skelton, The Writings of J. M. Synge (NY: Bobbs-Merrill; London: Thames & Hudson 1971), 190pp.
• Robin Skelton, Remembering Synge [Poetry Ireland Edns.] (Poetry Ireland 1971).
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• George Watson, ‘J. M. Synge, The Watcher and the Shadows’, in Irish Identity and the Literary Revival (London: Croom Helm 1979), pp.35-86.

• Anthony Roche, ‘The Two Worlds of Synge’s The Well of Saints’, in The Genres of Irish Literary Revival , ed. Ronald Schleifer (Oklahoma: Pilgrim; Dublin: Wolfhound 1980), pp.27-38.
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• Robin Skelton, Celtic Contraries (Syracuse UP 1990), espec. Chaps 1, 2 & 3.
• Maria Filomena Pereira Rodriguez Louro, “The Drama of J. M. Synge: A Challenge to the Ideology of Myths of Irishness” (PhD Diss., Univ. of Warwick 1991) [Synge as ‘coloniser who refuses’ [after Fanon].
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• Deborah Fleming, The Man Who does not Exist: The Peasant in the Work of W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge (Michigan UP 1995).
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• Declan Kiberd, ‘Synge’s Tristes Tropiques: The Aran Islands’, in Irish Classics (London: Granta 2000), pp.420-39.
• Mary C. King, ‘Conjuring Past or Future? Versions of Synge’s “Play of ’98”’, in The Irish Review, 26, 1 (Autumn 2000), pp.71-79.
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• Gregory Castle, Modernism and the Celtic Revival (Cambridge UP 2001) [Chap. 3, ‘“Synge-on-Aran”: The Aran Islands and the Subject of Revivalist Ethnography’, & Chap. 4, ‘Staging Ethnography’].
• Christopher Morash, ‘A Night at the Theatre 4: The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea [...] Abbey Theatre, Tuesday 29 January 1907’ [chap. in], A History of Irish Theatre 1601-2000 (Cambridge UP 2002), pp.130-38.
• Ronan McDonald, Tragedy and Irish Literature: Synge, O’Casey, Beckett (London: Palgrave 2002), 214pp. [Chap. 2: ‘A Gallous Story or a Dirty Deed: J. M. Synge and the Tragedy of Evasion’, pp.42-84].
• Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel, Synge and Irish Nationalism: The Precursor to Revolution (Westport, NJ: Greenwood Press 2002), xvi, 113pp.
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• P. J. Matthews, Revival: The Abbey Theatre, Sinn Féin, the Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement (Cork UP 2003), 280pp. [whole chap. on Shadw of the Glen.].
• Mary C. King, ‘J. M. Synge, “National” Drama and the post-Protestant Imagination’, in The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-century Irish Drama, ed. Shaun Richards (Cambridge UP 2003) [Chap. 6].
• Nelson Ó Ceallaigh Ritschel, ‘In the Shadow of the Glen: Synge, Ostrovsky, and Marital Separation’, in New Hibernia Review, 7, 4 (Winter 2004), pp.85-102 [available at JSTOR - online; see extract].
• James Pethica, ‘“A Young Man’s Ghost”: Lady Gregory and J. M. Synge’, in Irish University Review, 34, 1, Spring/Summer 2004), pp.1-20 [see extract].
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• Colm Tóibín, ed., Synge: A Celebration (Carysfort Press 2005), 179pp. [contribs. incl. Sebastian Barry, Marina Carr, Anthony Cronin, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Hugo Hamilton, Joseph O’Connor, Mary O’Malley, Fintan O’Toole, Vincent Woods; available at Google Books - online; see also review].
• George Cusack, ‘“In the gripe of the ditch”: Nationalism, famine and The Playboy of the Western World’, in Hungry Words. Images of Famine in the Irish Canon, ed., Cusack & Sarah Gross (Dublin: IAP 2006), pp.133-58.
• Andrea Mayr, The Aran Islands and Anglo-Irish Literature: a Literary History and Selected Studies, with a preface by Otto Rauchbauer (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang 2008) [sect. on Synge].
• Mary Burke, “Tinkers”: Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller (Oxford: OUP 2009), 344pp. [launched at Synge Summer School, June 2009].
• George Cusack, The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama: W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J. M. Synge (London: Routledge 2009), 210pp.
• Barry Monahan, Ireland’s Theatre on Film: Style, Stories and the National Stage on Screen (Dublin; IAP 2009), viii, 279pp., ill. [chap: ‘John Millington Synge and Ireland / Brian Desmond Hurst’].

• Nicholas Grene, ‘J. M. Synge’, in W. B. Yeats in Context, ed. David Holdeman & Ben Levitas (Cambridge UP 2010) [Chap. 13].
• Colm Tóibín, ‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Synge and His Family’, in New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families (London: Viking [Penguin] 2012), pp.78-110.
• Alex Davis,‘. M. Synge’s Vita Vecchia and Aucassin et Nicolette’, in Notes and Queries, 58, 1 (Oxford 2011), pp.125-27.
• Alan Titley, ‘The Irish Language and Synge’, in Nailing Theses: Selected Essays (Belfast: Lagan Press 2011), pp.130-44 [see extract].
• Patrick Lonergan, ed., Synge and his Influences: Centenary Essays from the Synge Summer School (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2011), xvii, 309pp. [see contents].
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• Colm Tóibín, ‘The mystery of Inis Meáin’, in The Guardian ([Sat] 12 May 2007) [see full-text version].
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• Christopher Collins, Theatre and Residual Culture: J. M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland (London: Palgrave 2016), 300pp.

See also Nicholas Grene, ‘Reality Check: Authenticity from Synge to McDonagh’, Lecture at Univ. of N. Carolina, English Department (2 Dec. 2004), printed in Munira H. Mutran & Laura P. Z. Izarra, eds., Irish Studies in Brazil, Sao Paolo Univ.: Associação Editorial Humanitas 2005), pp.69-88, espec. pp.71ff.

• Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh, The Splendid Years: Recollections of Maire Nic Shiubhlaigh: As told to Edward Kenny (Dublin: James Duffy 1955).
• Lady Augusta Gregory, Our Irish Theatre. Buckinghamshire: Colin Smythe, 1972.
• Hogan, Robert & James Kilroy, The Abbey Theatre: The Years of Synge, 1905-1909 (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1978) Morash, Christopher. A History of Irish Theatre: 1601-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Fitz-Simon, Christopher. The Abbey Theatre: Ireland’s National Theatre, The First 100 Years ( London: Thames & Hudson 2003).
• Irish Theatre on Tour, ed. Nicholas Grene & Chris Morash (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2005), [incls. John P. Harrington, ‘The Abbey in America: The Real Thing’, pp.35-50].