 A collected volume, "Poems and Translations", with a preface by Yeats, was published by the Cuala Press on 8 April 1909.Yeats and actress and one-time fiancée Molly Allgood (Maire O'Neill) completed Synge's unfinished final play, "Deirdre of the Sorrows", and it was presented by the Abbey players on Thursday 13 January 1910 with Allgood as Deirdre.John Masefield, who knew Synge, wrote that he "gave one from the first the impression of a strange personality".