Animals in Irish Literature and Culture

Animals in Irish Literature and Culture spans the early modern period to the present, exploring colonial, post-colonial, and globalized manifestations of Ireland as country and state as well as the human animal and non-human animal migrations that challenge a variety of literal and cultural borders.

Animals in Irish Literature and Culture spans the early modern period to the present, exploring colonial, post-colonial, and globalized manifestations of Ireland as country and state as well as the human animal and non-human animal migrations that challenge a variety of literal and cultural borders.

List of Illustrations Forward; Margo DeMello Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; Kathryn Kirkpatrick PART I: HUNTING AND CONSUMING ANIMALS 1. 'Our sep'rate Natures are the same': Reading Blood Sports in Irish Poetry of the Long Eighteenth Century'; Lucy Collins 2. Quick Red Foxes: Irish Women Write the Hunt; Kathryn Kirkpatrick 3. Dennis O'Driscoll's Beef with the Celtic Tiger; Amanda Sperry 4. Porcine Pasts and Bourgeois Pigs: Consumption and the Irish Counterculture; Sarah Townsend PART II: GENDER AND ANIMALS 5. 'Their disembodied voices cry': Marine Animals and Their Songs of Absence in the Poetry of Sinéad Morrissey, Caitríona O'Reilly and Mary O'Donoghue; Katarzyna Poloczek 6. Hares and Hags: Becoming Animal in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's Dún na mBan trí Thine; Sarah O'Connor 7. 'Even the animals in the fields': Animals, Queers, and Violence; Ed Madden 8. 'A pedigree bitch, like myself': (Non)Human Illness and Death in Dorothy Molloy's Poetry; Luz Mar González-Arias PART III: CHALLENGING HABITS 9. Impersonating Authority: Animals and the Anglo-Irish Social Order in Maria Edgeworth's Ennui and Edmund Spenser's Mother Hubberds Tale; Andrew Smyth 10. 'Do You Dance, Minnaloushe?' Yeats's Animal Questions; Liam Young 11. Room for Creatures: Frances Harvey's Bestiary; Donna Potts 12. 'A capacity for sustained flight': Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Ecology of Avian Encounter; Christine Cusick PART IV: UNSETTLING ANIMALS 13. Mad Dogs and Irishmen: Dogs, Dracula, and the Colonial Irish Other; Jeanne Dubino 14. The Celtic Tiger's Equine Imaginary; Maria Pramaggiore 15. Transnational - Transanimal: Reading the Insect in Irish Migrant Poetry; Borbála Faragó 16. Strange Becomings: Paul Muldoon's Maggot; Tom Herron Selected Bibliography Index