Working-Class Women in Irish Literature and Theatre

Introduction: No Working-Class Women in Irish Culture? by Clara Mallon and Salome Paul

Section One: Absent Presence: Working-Class Women in the Canon

Chapter One: "Not in Flesh": The Construction and Deconstruction of "Poor Woman" in Irish Theatre by Salome Paul

Chapter Two: Working-Class Actresses and Working-Class Roles: Ireland in the 1910s and 1950s by Cathy Leeney

Chapter Three: The Juno Complex: Tracing Representations of Working-Class Women in Contemporary Dublin Theatre by Fiona Charleton

Section Two: Class, Convergence and Consciousness on the Contemporary Stage

Chapter Four: Theatre of Grace Dyas: Classed Re-Imaginings of Social and Cultural Histories by Clara Mallon and Salome Paul

Chapter Five: "Who are you angry with?": Class, Race, and Conflict in the Plays of Rosaleen McDonagh by Justine Nakase

Chapter Six: Hope in the Face of Despair: (Re)Presenting Working-Class Women in Natural History of Hope by Clara Mallon

Chapter Seven: The Bearable, Bridgeable and the Imaginable: Deirdre Kinahan's The Unmanageable Sisters by Eamonn Jordan

Chapter Eight: "Wakened" Solidarity: Making the Invisible Visible for Working-Class Women in Frank McGuinness's The Factory Girls by David Cregan

Section Three: Fractured Existences: Women on the Periphery in Theatre in the North of Ireland

Chapter Nine: Women's Work: Challenging Social Dysfunction through Working-Class Women's Performance Practice in the North of Ireland by Ciara L. Murphy

Chapter Ten: Confinement, Resistance and Reclaiming Space in JustUs's Just a Prisoner's Wife by Michael Pierse

Section Four: Breaking Silence: In Conversation with Working-Class Artists

Chapter Eleven: In Conversation with Veronica Dyas

Chapter Twelve: In Conversation with Louise Lowe

Chapter Thirteen: In Conversation with Felispeaks

Chapter Fourteen: In Conversation with Emmet Kirwan