Animals in Irish Literature and Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction: Othering the Animal, Othering the Nation....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
‘Our sep’rate Natures are the same’: Reading Blood Sports in Irish Poetry of the Long Eighteenth Century....Pages 13-25
Quick Red Foxes: Irish Women Write the Hunt....Pages 26-41
Dennis O’Driscoll’s Beef with the Celtic Tiger....Pages 42-54
Porcine Pasts and Bourgeois Pigs: Consumption and the Irish Counterculture....Pages 55-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
‘Their disembodied voices cry:’ Marine Animals and their Songs of Absence in the Poetry of Sinéad Morrissey, Caitríona O’Reilly, and Mary O’Donoghue....Pages 75-91
Hares and Hags: Becoming Animal in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s Dún na mBan trí Thine ....Pages 92-104
‘Even the animals in the fields’: Animals, Queers, and Violence....Pages 105-118
‘A pedigree bitch, like myself’: (Non)Human Illness and Death in Dorothy Molloy’s Poetry ....Pages 119-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Impersonating Authority: Animals and the Anglo-Irish Social Order in Maria Edgeworth’s Ennui and Edmund Spenser’s Mother Hubberds Tale ....Pages 135-148
‘Do You Dance, Minnaloushe?’ Yeats’s Animal Questions....Pages 149-164
‘Room for Creatures’: Francis Harvey’s Bestiary....Pages 165-181
‘A capacity for sustained flight’: Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Ecology of Avian Encounter....Pages 182-196
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Mad Dogs and Irishmen: Dogs, Dracula, and the Colonial Irish Other....Pages 199-213
The Celtic Tiger’s Equine Imaginary....Pages 214-230
Transnational — Transanimal: Reading the Insect in Migrant Irish Poetry....Pages 231-243
Strange Becomings: Paul Muldoon’s Maggot ....Pages 244-258
Back Matter....Pages 259-270