Animals in Irish Literature and Culture

Lucy Collins, University College Dublin, Ireland Christine Cusick, Seton Hill University, USA Jeanne Dubino, Appalachian State University, USA Borbála Faragó St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Ireland Luz Mar González-Arias University of Oviedo, Spain Tom Herron, Leeds Beckett University, UK Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Appalachian State University, USA Sarah O'Connor, University of Toronto, USA Katarzyna Poloczek, University of Lodz, Poland. Donna L. Potts, Washington State University, USA Maria Pramaggiore, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland Andrew Smyth, Southern Connecticut State University, USA Amanda Sperry, Georgia State University, USA Sarah L. Townsend, University of South Dakota, USA Liam Young, University of Alberta, USA

"This timely collection breaks new ground by carving out a space for an Irish animal studies. ... is a project to be applauded for its scope and ambition and it is an invaluable text book for those with an interest in animal studies, ecocriticism, Irish literature and culture. ... The volume charts new ground in its aim to break down the binary between human and nonhuman animals and opens up exciting new avenues for further research ... ." (Dr. Anna Pilz, Liverpool Postgraduate Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 1, February, 2016) "Kirkpatrick and Farago's volume - which deserves special praise for its combination of established and emerging scholars, as well as their international range - marks an important addition to the field, and will inspire a broad scope of responses and further developments." (Timothy C. Baker, Irish Studies Review, 2015) "This is a fascinating and wide-ranging collection of essays that contributes strongly to the field of literary animal studies. It is one of those rare collections that combines historical with theoretical acumen. It is a particular joy to see Irish poetry treated with such reverence and sophistication in essay after essay." Dr Chris Danta, Senior Lecturer in English, University of New South Wales, Australia

• 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