About the Author

Philip O'Leary is Professor of English at Boston College.

Reviews

“This book is a comprehensive literary history of the Irish language movement during its crucial period—the forty years from its organization to the Civil War—with full and fairly detailed accounts of the authors and works involved. There is no available synthesis that could begin to compare with it in the scope and range of the material it covers. Hence it should fill an important need to all those who are interested in Ireland and its culture.”—Harry Levin,Harvard University

“This is a major contribution to Irish Studies as well as a superb case study in the problems involved in saving and promoting a vanishing language, and encouraging literary activity in that language.”—Robert Tracy,University of California, Berkeley

“Taken together, this book and its companion volume [Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State, 1922–1939] constitute a magisterial survey of Irish language prose up to the beginning of WWII. . . . The volumes belong together since the careers of many of the most important writers overlap the periods of both. . . . Libraries will want both of these splendid books.”—E. M. Slotkin Choice