Abstract
Instead, he argues, it should be understood as a function of the Victorian time period she was working in, a time that did not condone the open discussion of sexual matters (32).1 However, because Lady Gregory's text was so popular and influential, it became the way English readers understood what happened in the TBC, and thus may have helped to perpetuate the sexual repression of Ireland into the mid-20th century. Because the TBC is a long text, I limit my focus to their attitudes toward social and sexual relationships as exemplified in their representations of Medb and Cú Chulainn.