They make a strange pair , the slight , fiery , ball-of-energy Ms. Hynes , a 52-year-old Catholic -LRB- from the west of Ireland at that -RRB- , and Synge , the lanky , quiet , aristocratic Irish Protestant who , together with W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory , helped forge a national theater movement for an independence-minded Ireland before his death at 37 , in Dublin in 1909 .