"One of the few collections of plays by Irish women, this volume contextualizes the political and sociological climate in which these playwrights developed. As theatre practitioners—actors and directors—as well as scholars, Kearney and Headrick have devoted years of research to discovering and rediscovering the contributions these women have made—and continue to make—in the Irish and world theatre scenes."

Syracuse University Press, 343 pages

In the mid-1980s, CSWS awarded Eileen Kearney the Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship to help with her doctoral work and research on 1930s Irish playwright Teresa Deevy. In the acknowledgments section of this anthology, she thanks CSWS for its support. Teresa Deevy is only one of the seven playwrights in the book. The CSWS support that she received, Kearney says, “helped spark my interest in putting as many of these wonderful women dramatists on the map as possible.”