Writing Ireland’s Working Class

1. Introduction
Michael Pierse

2. The Shadow of Seán: O’Casey, Commitment and the Literature of Dublin’s Working Class
Michael Pierse

3. Angry Young Men: Class Injuries and Masculinity
Michael Pierse

4. From Rocking the Cradle to Rocking the System: Writing Working-Class Women
Michael Pierse

5. Industry and the City: Workers in Struggle
Michael Pierse

6. Prison Stories: Writing Dublin at its Limits
Michael Pierse

7. Return of the Oppressed: Sexual Repression, Culture and Class
Michael Pierse

8. Revising the Revolution: Roddy Doyle’s A Star Called Henry, Historiography, Politics and Proletarian Consciousness
Michael Pierse

9. Conclusion
Michael Pierse

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, History of Britain and Ireland, Fiction