ABSTRACT
As lesbian activism gained a greater stronghold and visibility towards the end of the twentieth century, Chapter 3 focuses on a selection of authors, Edna O’Brien, Maura Richards and Mary Dorcey, whose works reflect the changing attitudes towards lesbians from the 1960s to the late 1980s. Examining Edna O’Brien’s short stories ‘Sister Imelda’(1982), ‘The Mouth of the Cave’ (1968) and the novel The High Road (1988) in conjunction with Maura Richards’s Interlude (1982) and Mary’s Dorcey’s A Noise from the Woodshed (1989), the third chapter continues to chart a trajectory of spatiality within Irish lesbian fiction, noting the queerness embodied in certain locales within their fiction.
