"No Visible Scars" : Coercive Control in Irish Domestic Noir in Louise O'Neill's After the Silence

Abstract

[Abstract] Recent Irish crime fiction has highlighted the conditions of migrant workers, the spread of sundry drugs and the violence that surrounds their distribution and consumption, the abuse carried out in public institutions such as children’s homes and asylums, that carried out by the clergy among other types of crime. Although violence against women had also figured, the years since 2020 have seen the publication of at least a dozen crime novels in which gender violence plays a substantial role, perhaps reflecting concerns which are at last finding a voice in Ireland.