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The Tinker's Wedding

by J. M. Synge (1871–1909)

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  • 35 min read
  • 3 chapters
  • Reading level: 6th grade

"The Tinker's Wedding" by J. M. Synge is a two-act play that premiered in 1909. Set on a roadside near a rural Irish chapel, it follows Irish Tinkers Sarah Casey and Michael Byrne as they attempt to get married. Sarah convinces a reluctant Michael and strikes a deal with a local priest, but the wedding plans unravel when Michael's drunken mother causes trouble. What begins as a simple ceremony spirals into a chaotic confrontation that tests everyone's patience and principles.

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Act I

SCENE: A Village roadside after nightfall. A fire of sticks is burning near the ditch a little to the right. Michael is working beside it. In the background, on the left, a sort of tent and ragged clothes drying on the hedge. On the right a chapel-gate.

SARAH CASEY coming in on right, eagerly.—We’ll see his reverence this place, Michael Byrne, and he passing backward to his house to-night.

MICHAEL
grimly.—That’ll be a sacred and a sainted joy!

SARAH sharply.—It’ll be small joy for yourself if you aren’t ready with my wedding ring. (She goes over to him.) Is it near done this time, or what way is it at all?

MICHAEL A poor way only, Sarah Casey, for it’s the divil’s job making a ring, and you’ll be having my hands destroyed in a short while the way I’ll not be able to make a tin can at all maybe at the dawn of day.

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Act I
  3. Act II

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About this edition

This free edition of The Tinker's Wedding by J. M. Synge comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #1328, released 1998-05-01. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Humour, Plays/Films/Dramas, British Literature.

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