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This series offer a detailed history of how prose in the Irish language developed from 1922 to 1951. Making use of contemporary newspapers, journals, personal papers, and other primary texts - novels, short stories, plays, biographies - the books recreate the intellectual and ideological climate of the spread of Irish as a modern literary language.

There was no native tradition of theatre in Irish. Thus, language revivalists were forced to develop the genre ex nihilo if there was to be a Gaelic drama that was not entirely made up of translations. The earliest efforts to do so at the beginning of the 20th century were predictably clumsy at best, and truly dreadful at worst.

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A continuation of the author's previous path-breaking book on the prose literature of the Gaelic Revival. For the first time, the development of a modern literature in Irish following the War of Independence and Civil War is outlined and analysed. This period saw an outpouring of book-length works in Irish from the state publishing agency An Gum, and the frequency and production of new plays, both original and translated, have never been appro...

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