This exhaustively researched and invaluable book offers the first comprehensive account of the Gaelic literary movement during the two decades following Irish independence. Taking up where Philip O’Leary’s The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881–1921: Ideology and Innovation (1994) left off, this volume examines the prose produced by those who sought to build on the empowerment of a native government by reviving Irish throughout society and creating a viable literature in Irish. In the former goal, the activists were, as we know, unsuccessful. Anglicization increased throughout the period despite their alarmed protests. But in the more modest, yet still substantial, latter goal, the activists were remarkably successfulindeed, particularly when measured against the considerable difficulties they faced. This book gives us a careful assessment of that very real success, without denying its shortcomings.