A haunting and evocative experience awaits viewers of “The Aran Islands: A Performance on Screen,” made possible by New York’s Irish Repertory Theatre, which first presented a stage version of the work in association with Co-Motion Media in 2017. The Aran Islands, off the coast of Galway, Ireland, had been remote and mysterious back in the late 1890s when the great Irish poet and playwright John Millington Synge decided to visit them, at the suggestion of his friend, that other great poet and playwright W.B. Yeats. Two of J.M. Synge’s many plays, the noted “The Playboy of the Western World” and “Riders to the Sea,” were permeated with material from his travels to the islands. Remarkably, Synge was able to make a powerful mark on Irish and world literature before dying, sadly, at age 37. Virtual ‘The Aran Islands’ Synge’s writings have here been translated into the current digital presentation. …