who is j. m. synge
Biography of John Millington Synge. J.M. Synge is one of the most famous Irish playwrights, and one of the founders of Ireland's Abbey Theatre. Edmund John Millington (J.M.) Synge was born April 10, 1871, in rural Rathfarnham, outside Dublin, Ireland. He was the youngest of five children, and never knew his father John Hatch, a barrister who died of smallpox when Synge was a year old.