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. (UCD Press)