Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957), younger brother of William Butler Yeats, is best known as a painter. What is less well known is that he was an accomplished writer, primarily of fiction and drama. Nora A. McGuinness sets out here to explore this other creative side of Jack B. Yeats and to establish his reputation beyond the realm of visual art. Uncovering a consistent philosophy and a unified political and social point of view, McGuinness emphasizes Yeats's seriousness as a writer and places his work in the experimental Irish fiction and drama of the Modernist period.