It was featured, read with the most deliciously malicious relish by Kenneth Cranham, on Radio 3’s Words & Music on 25 November
The curse
LORD, confound this surly sister,
Blight her brow with blotch and blister,
Cramp her larynx, lung, and liver,
In her guts a galling give her.
Let her live to earn her dinners
In Mountjoy with seedy sinners:
Lord, this judgment quickly bring,
And I'm your servant, J. M. Synge.
John Millington Synge
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