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Ireland of the exclusions: Walter Macken’s Rain on the Wind and the peripheralisation of the Irish fisheries

ABSTRACT This article focuses on Walter Macken’s novel of the Claddagh fishery, Rain on the Wind (1950), a narrative that describes the challenges facing an Irish traditional coastal community during the interwar period. Through an exploration of the many valences of the term ‘waste’, as well as the cultural meanings of fossil fuels in Ireland, I demonstrate how Macken sees the Claddagh and its community as a commons that is threatened by Ireland’s developing heritage industry. As fossil-powered ships menace the Claddagh basin, Macken falls back on conservative gender relations as compensation for the collapse of the fishery, leaving questions around the long-term survival of the Claddagh community unanswered.