Care and Capitalism. Kathleen Lynch

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      13 13 The caveat is mine.

      14 14 In her book Object Lessons (1996) Eavan Boland meditates on how the experiences of women qua women, such as caring for children, were not defined as fit subjects for poetry. While Irish women could write poetry, they were expected to take their subject matter from men’s handbook. Through her life’s work, Boland created a space, for the first time within modern Ireland, where being a woman and a poet was no longer a contradiction in terms.

      15 15 The vernacular terms reflect their association with disgust and abjection: shit, pee, sputum and vomit.

      16 16 ‘Well it’s basically twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. I mean you are on call all the time, … you cannot leave them’ (Valerie, a daughter, who had taken leave from her job to care for both parents, in Lynch, Baker and Lyons 2009: 59–60).

      17 17 ‘I think that being a mother is the most thankless task in the world … because it’s taken for granted particularly in Ireland in terms of the whole culture and the whole thing. That is just the way it is. It’s taken for granted. Nobody really cares at the end of the day … Society doesn’t appreciate it; the Government doesn’t appreciate it either’ (Paula, employed full-time, separated mother of four children, of whom three were adults and one school-going, in Lynch, Baker and Lyons 2009: 80–1).

      18 18 ‘We [carers] don’t exist, we get the usual pat on the head at election time, [we are] patronised. We don’t exist. As long as you are prepared to do it, they will wring their hands and say you have done a great job and leave it to that’ (Tom, single man, caring full-time for his father, in Lynch, Baker and Lyons 2009: 82).