The Real Synge Street Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 10/22/2016
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This street has many Muscial Connections ranging from its name Synge after Edmund John Synge to most recently Sing Street (2016). Not many would know but parts of the 1991 film The Commitments was also recorded in the Archbishop Byrne Hall. 

 

Edmund John Millington Synge (16 April 1871 – 24 March 1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer and collector of folklore. He was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the co-founders of the Abbey Theatre. He is best known for his play The Playboy of the Western World, which caused riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre. Although he came from a privileged Anglo-Irish background, Synge's writings are mainly concerned with the world of the Roman Catholic peasants of rural Ireland and with what he saw as the essential paganism of their world view. Synge developed Hodgkin's disease, a metastatic cancer that was then untreatable. He died several weeks short of his 38th birthday as he was trying to complete his last play, Deirdre of the Sorrows.

 

Sygne Street continues on the far side of Harrington street you will find the birth place of George Bernard Shaw who was born at 33 Synge Street and there is a museum (now sadly closed) at the other end of the street. Shaw took umbrage at the inscription originally proposed for the plaque and he himself suggested the inscription that can now be seen at the defunct museum. He is supposed to have suggested that the words “Bernard Shaw, Author of many plays was born in the house, 26 JULY 1856” placed within a shamrock wreath, would suffice. A modest boast indeed!

 

Some of the buildings also worth noting are St Kevins Church, The Regional HQ for the Girl Guides, Sygne Street School .

 

This cache is places by a Guide and we would love to know if other Cachers are Guides or Scouts so please feel free to mention this in your log.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Puhepu fvqr evtug bs ragenapr cvyyre ybj. Orjner bs zhttyrf!!!!!

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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