Writing Ireland’s Working Class: Dublin After O’Casey

✍ Scribed by Michael Pierse (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Exploring writing of working-class Dublin after Seán O'Casey, this book breaks new ground in Irish Studies, unearthing submerged narratives of class in Irish life. Examining how working-class identity is depicted by authors like Brendan Behan and Roddy Doyle, it discusses how this hidden, urban Ireland has appeared in the country's literature.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-50
The Shadow of Seán: O’Casey, Commitment and the Literature of Dublin’s Working Class....Pages 51-72
Angry Young Men: Class Injuries and Masculinity....Pages 73-109
From Rocking the Cradle to Rocking the System: Writing Working-Class Women....Pages 110-142
Industry and the City: Workers in Struggle....Pages 143-166
Prison Stories: Writing Dublin at its Limits....Pages 167-190
Return of the Oppressed: Sexual Repression, Culture and Class....Pages 191-221
Revising the Revolution: Roddy Doyle’s A Star Called Henry, Historiography, Politics and Proletarian Consciousness....Pages 222-246
Conclusion....Pages 247-258
Back Matter....Pages 259-345

✦ Subjects

Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; British and Irish Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; History of Britain and Ireland; Fiction