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Through reading forms of domestic labour undertaken by the two daughter figures of Anne Enright’s 2015 novel,  The Green Road , this article contends that the novel not only captures the everyday texture of contemporary Irish gender norms but also reveals the interdependency between constructions of Irish womanhood and labour as signified by Article 41.2 – the infamous “women in the home” article – of the Irish Constitution. In this way, the types of domestic labour foregrounded in the novel – predominantly consumerism, cooking, and child care – provide a means of exploring the shifting role of women in contemporary Ireland. Eschewing a straightforward generational reading of the mother and daughter figures of the novel, this article instead focuses on descriptions of domestic labour (characteristic of a mode Susan Fraiman has termed “shelter writing”) performed by the characters of Constance and Hanna Madigan. In focusing on the labour of these Celtic Tiger-era housewives, more often understood as depoliticised, if not outright apolitical figures, this article argues that  The Green Road  mounts a tacit political critique regarding the individual, familial, and cultural functions of domestic labour, a critique which has been overlooked due to Enright’s attention in this realist novel to description and domestic labour itself.

“It’s a lot of work”: reading domestic labour in Anne Enright’s The Green Road