Working primarily in gouache and egg tempera her paintings are characterized by their perspectives of Rococo interiors and explorations of the legacy of the Vietnam War.
[1] The text on the surface of her ceramics includes collaborations with prominent art critics like Vincent Katz and Carter Ratcliff and poetry from Vietnam war veterans from a 1972 collection.
[4] In 2005, Jane's work began to focus itself around the Vietnam War when she became interested in a 1970 anti-war march from Morristown, N.J., to Valley Forge.
This led her to organize an exhibition called "Operation Rapid American Withdrawal, 1970/2005" with over 75 artists participating at the Crane Arts Ice Box Gallery in Philadelphia.
Irish had been using the Connelly Library’s world‐renowned rare book and manuscript collection, "Imaginative Representations of the Vietnam War", for nearly a decade leading up to that exhibition.