Connemara by danob

Photography • Landscape • posted on Jun 24, 2007

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Description

In 1905 JM Synge and JB Yeats were in their early thirties. Synge was an up-and-coming playwright whose Playboy of the Western World would soon make him as famous his brother William. They had undertaken a trip into the Cannamara for a newspaper which was to be published twice a week about the "Congested Districts", and the desperation of hungry people eking out an existence among sublimely beautiful landscapes in wretched conditions, hardly changed since the evil days of 1845-49 and the Great Famine. I had decided to follow their footsteps for my 4 week photography trip of Ireland and driving west out of Galway City along the coast road into Connemara, I was soon deep in the bleakly beautiful landscape vividly described by Synge: "small square fields of oats, or potatoes, or pasture, divided by loose stone walls that are built up without mortar