Books by Philip O'Leary

Philip O'Leary was born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts and received his Ph.D. in Celtic languages from Harvard University. He is the author of Ideology and Innovation: The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881-1921 (1994), winner of the 1995 Donald Murphy Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies; Deirc an Dochais: Leamh arShaothar Phadhraic Oig Ui Chonaire (1995); Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State, 1922-1939 (2004), winner of the 2005 Michael Durkan Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies; Irish Interior: Keeping Faith with the Past in Gaelic Prose, 1940-1951 (2010); and Writing beyond the Revival: Facing the Future in Gaelic Prose, 1940-1951 (2011). He is a professor of English at Boston College and an honorary professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway.