Review article of: Dúbhghlas de hÍde: ceannródái cultúrtha 1860-1910 by Risteárd Ó Glaisne (Baile Átha Cliath: Conradh na Gaeilge 1991); Douglas Hyde: a maker of modern Ireland, by Janet E. Dunleavy and Gareth W. Dunleavy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).