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From its outset, Poncarová's monograph represents a significant achievement: a culmination of more than a decade's meticulous incremental scholarship and a fitting exploration of the breathtaking corpus of work and activism, for Gaelic and for Scotland, produced by one of the twentieth century's greatest intellectuals and creative writers, Derick Thomson (Ruaraidh MacThòmais).--Kate Louise Mathis, University of Edinburgh, and Michel Byrne, University of Glasgow ""https: //muse.jhu.edu/article/945012"" an engaging and accessible book--Dr Proinsias Ó Drisceoil, author of Seán Ó Dálaigh: Éigse agus Iomarbhá ""Comhar"" An enriching and hugely readable evocation of one of Scotland's most influential yet underappreciated literary figures. Derick Thomson's impact across poetry, academia, publishing, and language activism has been significantly undervalued - until now. This is the most stimulating book on Gaelic literature I've read in years. If only more of modern Scotland's writers' contributions were explored with such an edifying blend of diligent research, intellectual lucidity, and human understanding.--Kevin MacNeil, University of Stirling Petra Johana Poncarová's probing but accessible new study of Thomson's role in the modern Gaelic revival makes an important addition not only to our understanding of Thomson's personal contribution but also to the surprisingly understudied field of modern Gaelic cultural history more generally. [...] Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival is a valuable and original contribution to our understanding of Gaelic history in the twentieth century and how Thomson combined political commitment, organisational energy and artistic integrity to defend and promote his language and culture.--Wilson McLeod, Emeritus Professor of Gaelic, University of Edinburgh ""The Bottle Imp"" Lucid, thoughtful and comparative: the scale of Derick Thomson's achievement is now clear thanks to this Czech scholar's extraordinary work. --Murray Pittock, University of Glasgow

An enriching and hugely readable evocation of one of Scotland's most influential yet underappreciated literary figures. Derick Thomson's impact across poetry, academia, publishing, and language activism has been significantly undervalued - until now. This is the most stimulating book on Gaelic literature I've read in years. If only more of modern Scotland's writers' contributions were explored with such an edifying blend of diligent research, intellectual lucidity, and human understanding.--Kevin MacNeil, University of Stirling Lucid, thoughtful and comparative: the scale of Derick Thomson's achievement is now clear thanks to this Czech scholar's extraordinary work. --Murray Pittock, University of Glasgow

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Petra Johana Poncarová is based at the University of Glasgow. Her publications include Scotnote Study Guide The Gaelic Poetry of Derick Thomson (Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2020) and a number of articles on twentieth-century Scottish literature. She also translates directly from Gaelic into Czech and her award-winning Czech edition of Tormod Caimbeul's Deireadh an Fhoghair is the first complete translation of the iconic novel into any foreign language. Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival is her first monograph.

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