J‎.‎M‎.‎ Synge was born in 1871‎.‎ 1n 1895 he went to Paris and in the following year met W‎.‎ B‎.‎ Yeats and consequently joined the Irish League‎.‎ He was first a literary adviser and then a director of the Abbey Theatre‎,‎ and his own plays appeared in repertory‎.‎ He died in 1909‎.‎ Sean O‎'‎Casey was born in Dublin in 1880‎.‎ In 1926 he moved to England‎.‎ He discouraged any professional performances of his plays in Ireland after the Archbishop of Dublin refused to inaugurate the Dublin festival if his play The Drums of Father Ned ‎(‎1958‎)‎ was included‎.‎ He died in 1964‎.‎ W‎.‎ B‎.‎ Yeats‎,‎ the irish dramatist‎,‎ poet‎,‎ autobiographer‎,‎ critic and occult philosopher‎,‎ was born in 1865‎.‎ At the age of nineteen he attended an art school in Dublin‎,‎ but already his central interest was in writing‎.‎ Towards the end of his life he enjoyed many honours‎,‎ including the Nobel Prize and membership of the Irish Senate‎.‎ He died in France in 1939‎.‎