Set in Barrytown, a fictional working-class location in the outskirts of North Dublin, The Snapper (1993) focuses on Sharon Curley’s voyage into motherhood and, in so doing, revisits some defining features of Irishness as represented by the pub, the community, storytelling, gossiping, and the family. This chapter analyzes the way in which Sharon’s unplanned pregnancy and her female empowerment not only affects herself and her family, especially the paterfamilias, but also their friends and neighbors. Special attention is paid to the function that the pub, a traditional site of alcohol consumption, male homosocial bonding, and hegemonic masculinity construction and reaffirmation, has in the film’s representation of gender and, more specifically, men
Aróstegui et al. (Sat,) studied this question.