Animals in Irish Literature and Culture

Chapter 1 Introduction: Othering the Animal, Othering the Nation

Chapter 2 ‘Our sep’rate Natures are the same’: Reading Blood Sports in Irish Poetry of the Long Eighteenth Century

Chapter 3 Quick Red Foxes: Irish Women Write the Hunt

Chapter 4 Dennis O’Driscoll’s Beef with the Celtic Tiger

Chapter 5 Porcine Pasts and Bourgeois Pigs: Consumption and the Irish Counterculture

Chapter 6 ‘Their disembodied voices cry:’ Marine Animals and their Songs of Absence in the Poetry of Sinéad Morrissey, Caitríona O’Reilly, and Mary O’Donoghue

Chapter 7 Hares and Hags: Becoming Animal in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s Dún na mBan trí Thine

Chapter 8 ‘Even the animals in the fields’: Animals, Queers, and Violence

Chapter 9 ‘A pedigree bitch, like myself’: (Non)Human Illness and Death in Dorothy Molloy’s Poetry

Chapter 10 Impersonating Authority: Animals and the Anglo-Irish Social Order in Maria Edgeworth’s Ennui and Edmund Spenser’s Mother Hubberds Tale

Chapter 11 ‘Do You Dance, Minnaloushe?’ Yeats’s Animal Questions

Chapter 12 ‘Room for Creatures’: Francis Harvey’s Bestiary

Chapter 13 ‘A capacity for sustained flight’: Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Ecology of Avian Encounter

Chapter 14 Mad Dogs and Irishmen: Dogs, Dracula, and the Colonial Irish Other

Chapter 15 The Celtic Tiger’s Equine Imaginary

Chapter 16 Transnational — Transanimal: Reading the Insect in Migrant Irish Poetry

Chapter 17 Strange Becomings: Paul Muldoon’s Maggot