Reviews
"a pioneering, richly informative volume which might inspirit a new generation of both scholars and writers devoted to the comic in Irish culture."
--News Stead: A Journal of History and Literature
"By bringing together a marvelous and substantial group of Irish female comic writers, this collection of critical essays more than fulfills its aim to unveil the contribution of women writers to the Irish comic tradition." "Gaelic, Anglo-Irish, anti-nationalist and nationalist perspectives are interwoven, thus offsetting the arrival at a simplistic of reductive account of Irish women's comedy but presenting the tradition in all its richness and complexity."--New Hibernia Review
--New Hibernia Review
"O'Connor and her peers give us information about writers we need to know, as well as new ways of looking at those writers. That combination makes The Comic Tradition in Irish Women Writers a useful volume for those who want to try to understand Irish comedy and those who have produced it."
--English Literature in Transition
"Both timely and useful. . . , it offers valuable readings of texts which have received little or no critical attention." -- Southern Humanities Review
--Southern Humanities Review