Animals in Irish Society: Interspecies Oppression and Vegan Liberation in Britain's First Colony

Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Timeline of Anti-speciesism Efforts in Ireland
Introduction
	The Case for Irish Animal Studies
		Food and Protest
		Irish Animal Rights
	Vegan Intersectionality as a Guiding Perspective
	Critical Animal Studies
	Methodology
	Conclusion
Chapter 1 Celticism, Christianity, and Animism in Gaelic Ireland
	Relationships with Free-Living Animals
	Relationships with Domesticated Animals
	Precolonial Food Systems
		“Meat”
		Dairy
		Plants, Grains, and Forage
		Food Magic
	The Impact of Christianity on Irish Human-Nonhuman Relationships
	Witches, Faeries, and Other Boundary-Crossers
	Conclusion
Chapter 2 Human and Nonhuman Relationships under British Colonization
	Changing Diets and Identity under Imperialism
		Food for the Empire
		Constructing Racial Difference
		Foodways in Colonial Ireland
	The Problematic Potato
	Animality and the Legacy of Famine
		Contested Humanity in Asylums
		Animalizing the Irish
	The Importation of New Speciesisms
		Irish Breeding
		British Exhibitions
		Sport and Subjugation
	Independence
	Conclusion
Chapter 3  Activism for Other Animals in Ireland, Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
	Irish Contributions to the Anti-cruelty Crusade
	Irish Vegetarianism
		Irish Vegetarians Organize
		The Irish Response to Vivisection
	Irish Barbarians in Nineteenth Century America
	Conclusion
Chapter 4 Modern Activism for Other Animals in Ireland
	Irish Veganism of the Mid-Twentieth Century
	Animal Activism and Civil Rights
		Conflicts with Travellers in Settled Ireland
		Animal Nationalism
		Human-Nonhuman Boundaries in Long Kesh
	Anti-speciesist Activism in the Twenty-first Century
	Anti-speciesism and the Irish State
	Conclusion
Chapter 5 Nonhuman Animal Welfare and Irish Food Sovereignty
	Feeding Independence
	Ireland Enters the World System
	Loving Ireland, Buying Local
	Greenwashing Speciesism
		Animal Agriculture and Sustainability Politics
		Post-speciesism
	Emerging Vegetarianism and Veganism in Modern Ireland
	Conclusion
Conclusion Human-Nonhuman Relationships in the Global Era
	Animality in Irish Society
	Entangled Oppressions
	Irish Vegan Ethics
	Looking Forward
		Ireland International
		New Movements
	Final Thoughts
Notes
Works Cited
Index