Flappers and the Jazz Age: Women and leisure in Ireland, 1920s-30s

This book foregrounds the everyday lives and leisure practices of people in 1920s–30s Ireland, an area often overlooked in existing scholarship. It examines how identity, recreation, and culture took shape both North and South of the border, with particular attention to women’s lived experiences. Although leisure activities were frequently overshadowed by religious influence and post-partition nation-building projects, many alternative spaces flourished. People danced, sang, listened to mus...