Women in twentieth-century Ireland: redrawing the map -- Cultural change -- Theorizing the interstitial space -- Bilingual realities -- Dancers dancing: in between, the in between, the in between, that is the truth and that is the story -- Cailíní beaga ghleann na mbláth: snámhaithe den scoth (the little girls of ghleann na mbláth: exceptional swimmers) -- Liombó samhlaíochta and the balakhana -- Medbh mcguckian and nuala ní dhomhnaill: collaboration in translation -- Translation as textual pregnant embodiment -- Postscript: picking up the pieces