Deirdre Flynn is a lecturer in 21st-century literature at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. She has published widely on contemporary literature, Irish studies, dystopian literature, Haruki Murakami, and literary urban studies. She is co-editor of two collections on Irish literature – Irish Urban Fictions (2018) and Representations of Loss in Irish Literature (2018). She is a member of the Association for Literary Urban Studies and the blog editor for the Irish Women’s Writing Network.Ciara L. Murphy is a postdoctoral researcher at the Moore Institute and School of English and Creative Arts at NUI Galway. Her forthcoming monograph Performing Social Change on the Island of Ireland: From Republic to Pandemic will be published by Routledge. She has published widely on contemporary theatre and performance, Irish studies, commemoration, and feminism. She is currently the co-convenor of the Performance in Public Spaces working group at the International Federation of Theatre Research and is the communications officer for the Irish Society for Theatre Research.

"The results of this collection are urgent, polished, and cohesive..."-- Tara Stubbs, Oxford University Department for Continuing Education, Kellogg College

• Chapter One: Irish Women’s Writing and Culture Under the Shadow of AusterityDeirdre Flynn and Ciara L. MurphySection One: Austerity, Feminism, and ConflictChapter Two: Two Opposing Narratives? The Field Day and LIP PamphletsLaura LoftusChapter Three: Austerity, Conflict, and Second-Wave Feminism in the North of IrelandCiara L. MurphyChapter Four: #WakeUpIrishPoetry: Austerity and Activism in Contemporary Irish Poetry – A Personal ReflectionKathy D’ArcySection Two: Arts and AusterityChapter Five: Kermit, Cows, and Headless Chickens: Women’s Comedy Monologues after the TigerClare KeoghChapter Six: Balancing Acts: From Survival to Sustainability in Contemporary Irish Theatre and PerformanceMiriam Haughton and Maria TivnanSection Three: Race and AusterityChapter Seven: Intersectionality in Contemporary Melodrama: Normal People (McDonald/Abrahamson, 2020) and Kissing Candice (McArdle, 2018)Zélie AsavaChapter 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 NakaseChapter Nine: Black Irish CultureSandrine Uwase NdahiroSection Four: Spaces of AusterityChapter Ten: Austerity, Irish Literary Tropes, and Claire Keegan’s Fiction Yen-Chi WuChapter Eleven: Celtic Tiger Saga Fiction: Patricia Scanlan’s City Girls and Marian Keyes’ Walsh FamilyMargaret O’NeillChapter Twelve: ‘Just the way it is’: Portraits of Austerity in Short Fiction by Women from the North of IrelandOrlaith DarlingChapter Thirteen: Motherhood, Referendums and Austerity in contemporary Irish Women’s WritingDeirdre Flynn

Deirdre Flynn is a lecturer in 21st-century literature at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. She has published widely on contemporary literature, Irish studies, dystopian literature, Haruki Murakami, and literary urban studies. She is co-editor of two collections on Irish literature – Irish Urban Fictions (2018) and Representations of Loss in Irish Literature (2018). She is a member of the Association for Literary Urban Studies and the blog editor for the Irish Women’s Writing Network.Ciara L. Murphy is a postdoctoral researcher at the Moore Institute and School of English and Creative Arts at NUI Galway. Her forthcoming monograph Performing Social Change on the Island of Ireland: From Republic to Pandemic will be published by Routledge. She has published widely on contemporary theatre and performance, Irish studies, commemoration, and feminism. She is currently the co-convenor of the Performance in Public Spaces working group at the International Federation of Theatre Research and is the communications officer for the Irish Society for Theatre Research.

"The results of this collection are urgent, polished, and cohesive..."-- Tara Stubbs, Oxford University Department for Continuing Education, Kellogg College

• Chapter One: Irish Women’s Writing and Culture Under the Shadow of AusterityDeirdre Flynn and Ciara L. MurphySection One: Austerity, Feminism, and ConflictChapter Two: Two Opposing Narratives? The Field Day and LIP PamphletsLaura LoftusChapter Three: Austerity, Conflict, and Second-Wave Feminism in the North of IrelandCiara L. MurphyChapter Four: #WakeUpIrishPoetry: Austerity and Activism in Contemporary Irish Poetry – A Personal ReflectionKathy D’ArcySection Two: Arts and AusterityChapter Five: Kermit, Cows, and Headless Chickens: Women’s Comedy Monologues after the TigerClare KeoghChapter Six: Balancing Acts: From Survival to Sustainability in Contemporary Irish Theatre and PerformanceMiriam Haughton and Maria TivnanSection Three: Race and AusterityChapter Seven: Intersectionality in Contemporary Melodrama: Normal People (McDonald/Abrahamson, 2020) and Kissing Candice (McArdle, 2018)Zélie AsavaChapter 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 NakaseChapter Nine: Black Irish CultureSandrine Uwase NdahiroSection Four: Spaces of AusterityChapter Ten: Austerity, Irish Literary Tropes, and Claire Keegan’s Fiction Yen-Chi WuChapter Eleven: Celtic Tiger Saga Fiction: Patricia Scanlan’s City Girls and Marian Keyes’ Walsh FamilyMargaret O’NeillChapter Twelve: ‘Just the way it is’: Portraits of Austerity in Short Fiction by Women from the North of IrelandOrlaith DarlingChapter Thirteen: Motherhood, Referendums and Austerity in contemporary Irish Women’s WritingDeirdre Flynn