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Factory Girls

by Michelle Gallen · 2022

A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory in Northern Ireland, while tensions rise both inside and outside the factory walls. It’s the summer of 1994, and all… more

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No matter how shitty things got for a man, they were always shittier for a woman.

I guess failure is like posh,' Maeve said. 'Relative.

Deirdre never uttered another word about what a man's urges had led up to in Belfast. And Maeve - who'd learned young to obey her community's pact of silence - had never asked.

Deirdre never utter another word about what a man's urges had led up to in Belfast. And Maeve - who'd learned young to obey her community's pact of silence - had never asked.

What you don’t get is I’m not even Irish– not proper Irish. I just want tae be. But all I am to the Free Staters is a dirty Northerner. I’m as pathetic as the Prods trying to be British when your lot think they’re just a pack of Paddies. You don’t want them. Them down south don’t want us. Everyone just wants us to crawl away and die some place dark where they don’t have to listen to us squealing for attention.

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A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory in Northern Ireland, while tensions rise both inside and outside the factory walls.

It’s the summer of 1994, and all smart-mouthed Maeve Murray wants are good final exam results so she can earn her ticket out of the wee Northern Irish town she has grown up in during the Troubles. She hopes she will soon be in London studying journalism—away from her crowded home, the silence and sadness surrounding her sister’s death, and most of all, away from the violence of her divided community.

As a first step, Maeve’s taken a job in a shirt factory working alongside Protestants with her best friends. But getting the right exam results is only part of Maeve’s problem—she’s got to survive a tit-for-tat paramilitary campaign, iron 100 shirts an hour all day every day, and deal with the attentions