Both O’Casey’s and the Independent’s women in distress, one fictional, the other (semi-)real, are equally outlandish and—amid the chaos of revolution—out of sync. But on a more serious level, the focus on such representations also risks ignoring how women, in the form of Cumann na mBan, were integral to the fighting—not inconsequential, bit-part-playing outsiders. The tendency to sideline women’s roles in the Rising is but one of the many issues that reverberate throughout literary depictions of the rebellion.