Austerity and Irish Women's Writing and Culture, 1980-2020

Chapter One: Irish Women's Writing and Culture Under the Shadow of Austerity

Deirdre Flynn and Ciara L. Murphy

Section One: Austerity, Feminism, and Conflict

Chapter Two: Two Opposing Narratives? The Field Day and LIP Pamphlets

Laura Loftus

Chapter Three: Austerity, Conflict, and Second-Wave Feminism in the North of Ireland

Ciara L. Murphy

Chapter Four: #WakeUpIrishPoetry: Austerity and Activism in Contemporary Irish Poetry - A Personal Reflection

Kathy D'Arcy

Section Two: Arts and Austerity

Chapter Five: Kermit, Cows, and Headless Chickens: Women's Comedy Monologues after the Tiger

Clare Keogh

Chapter Six: Balancing Acts: From Survival to Sustainability in Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance

Miriam Haughton and Maria Tivnan

Section Three: Race and Austerity

Chapter Seven: Intersectionality in Contemporary Melodrama: Normal People (McDonald/Abrahamson, 2020) and Kissing Candice (McArdle, 2018)

Zelie Asava

Chapter Eight: Austerity and the Precarity of Whiteness: Polish Characters in Stacey Gregg's Shibboleth (2015) and Rosemary Jenkinson's Here Comes the Night (2016)

Justine Nakase

Chapter Nine: Black Irish Culture

Sandrine Uwase Ndahiro

Section Four: Spaces of Austerity

Chapter Ten: Austerity, Irish Literary Tropes, and Claire Keegan's Fiction

Yen-Chi Wu

Chapter Eleven: Celtic Tiger Saga Fiction: Patricia Scanlan's City Girls and Marian Keyes' Walsh Family

Margaret O'Neill

Chapter Twelve: 'Just the way it is': Portraits of Austerity in Short Fiction by Women from the North of Ireland

Orlaith Darling

Chapter Thirteen: Motherhood, Referendums and Austerity in contemporary Irish Women's Writing

Deirdre Flynn