Introduction: "When Eve Gleeson joins the women's movement in Limerick, she finds it is a largely disregarded concern. Young, naive but grimly independent, she begins to work for a battered wives' refuge, and her increasing anger and pain at women's lot -- especially among the ill-educated poor -- is matched only by her growing frustration at the movement's limited resources and support...." -- Maeve Kelly writes with a kind of bitter elegance and provocation... Her descriptions of modern Limerick with its shoddy affluence and its comfortable contempt for 'social issues are vivid and accurate.

Personen: Kelly, Maeve