Note 43 — RIDERS TO THE SEA[41] By JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE
Reading edition
A later visitor[43] to the Aran Islands, Miss B. N. Hedderman, a district nurse, gives further evidences of the simplicity of those people from whom the characters of Riders to the Sea were drawn. She tells of a man who owned a house with two comfortable rooms in it, one of which he leveled ruthlessly because he had dreamed that it hindered the passage of the "good people." The illustrations in her little book showing cottage interiors and peasant costumes will be found useful by groups who are planning to produce Riders to the Sea. But the best guide to the costumes and social life of the West of Ireland is J. B. Yeats.[44]