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By the Bog of Cats… traces a matriarchal lineage of exile and empowerment through three generations of Traveller women from Big Josie Swane to her daughter Hester and granddaughter Josie. Big Josie has been missing for over 30 years and Hester is now being forced to leave the Bog of Cats where, like Beckett’s tramps, she has been ‘waitin’ a lifetime for some wan to return […]’
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Sihra, M. (2018). Writ in the Sky: By the Bog of Cats…. In: Marina Carr. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98331-8_5
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