In the Shadow of the Glen

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In the Shadow of the Glen

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…and basing his one-act plays In the Shadow of the Glen (first performed 1903) and Riders to the Sea (1904) on islanders’ stories. In 1905 his first three-act play, The Well of the Saints, was produced.
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