Nuria Torres López is Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Almeria, Spain.Alyce Corbett is Associate Professor in the English Department at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.

• Chapter 1:Introduction - Mothering and Not Mothering: Shaping the Contemporary Irish Maternal Imaginary.- Chapter 2: Womaning up to the Motherhood Myth: Surviving Maternal Self-loss, Solitude and Regret in Recent Irish Fiction.- Chapter 3: Tired, Lonely, and Lost: Motherhood and Mental Disorder in Claire Kilroy’s Soldier Sailor.- Chapter 4: Mutteroman: Narratives of Matrescence in Contemporary Irish Literature: An Analysis of Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat (2020), Alice Kinsella’s Milk: On Motherhood and Madness (2023) and Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s Cacophony of Bone (2023).- Chapter 5: “Simply the most ordinary thing I can imagine doing”: Motherhood as the Millennial Happy Ending in Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021).- Chapter 6: The Destructive Presence and Absence of the Mother Figure in Anna Burns’s No Bones and Little Constructions.- Chapter 7: Motherhood and Fatherhood in Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These.- Chapter 8: “A mother is not an endless thing”: Undoing the Spectral Mother in Sally Rooney’s Fiction.- Chapter 9: Presence as Absence: Emilie Pine’s Language of Infertility.- Chapter 10: From Disenfranchised Grief to Magical Transformations: Deirdre Sullivan’s Posthuman Literary Representations of Stillbirth Trauma.- Chapter 11: Burdened Bodies: Reproductive Oppression, Institutional Trauma, and Literary Resistance in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing.- Chapter 12: Queerness at the Intersection of Motherhood, Vulnerability and Irishness: An Analysis of Passage (2001) by Deirdre Kinahan.- Chapter 13: Alternative Motherhoods in Lesbian Communities: Chosen Families in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction.

Nuria Torres López is Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Almeria, Spain.Alyce Corbett is Associate Professor in the English Department at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.

• Chapter 1:Introduction - Mothering and Not Mothering: Shaping the Contemporary Irish Maternal Imaginary.- Chapter 2: Womaning up to the Motherhood Myth: Surviving Maternal Self-loss, Solitude and Regret in Recent Irish Fiction.- Chapter 3: Tired, Lonely, and Lost: Motherhood and Mental Disorder in Claire Kilroy’s Soldier Sailor.- Chapter 4: Mutteroman: Narratives of Matrescence in Contemporary Irish Literature: An Analysis of Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat (2020), Alice Kinsella’s Milk: On Motherhood and Madness (2023) and Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s Cacophony of Bone (2023).- Chapter 5: “Simply the most ordinary thing I can imagine doing”: Motherhood as the Millennial Happy Ending in Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021).- Chapter 6: The Destructive Presence and Absence of the Mother Figure in Anna Burns’s No Bones and Little Constructions.- Chapter 7: Motherhood and Fatherhood in Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These.- Chapter 8: “A mother is not an endless thing”: Undoing the Spectral Mother in Sally Rooney’s Fiction.- Chapter 9: Presence as Absence: Emilie Pine’s Language of Infertility.- Chapter 10: From Disenfranchised Grief to Magical Transformations: Deirdre Sullivan’s Posthuman Literary Representations of Stillbirth Trauma.- Chapter 11: Burdened Bodies: Reproductive Oppression, Institutional Trauma, and Literary Resistance in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing.- Chapter 12: Queerness at the Intersection of Motherhood, Vulnerability and Irishness: An Analysis of Passage (2001) by Deirdre Kinahan.- Chapter 13: Alternative Motherhoods in Lesbian Communities: Chosen Families in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction.

Nuria Torres López is Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Almeria, Spain.Alyce Corbett is Associate Professor in the English Department at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.

• Chapter 1:Introduction - Mothering and Not Mothering: Shaping the Contemporary Irish Maternal Imaginary.- Chapter 2: Womaning up to the Motherhood Myth: Surviving Maternal Self-loss, Solitude and Regret in Recent Irish Fiction.- Chapter 3: Tired, Lonely, and Lost: Motherhood and Mental Disorder in Claire Kilroy’s Soldier Sailor.- Chapter 4: Mutteroman: Narratives of Matrescence in Contemporary Irish Literature: An Analysis of Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat (2020), Alice Kinsella’s Milk: On Motherhood and Madness (2023) and Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s Cacophony of Bone (2023).- Chapter 5: “Simply the most ordinary thing I can imagine doing”: Motherhood as the Millennial Happy Ending in Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021).- Chapter 6: The Destructive Presence and Absence of the Mother Figure in Anna Burns’s No Bones and Little Constructions.- Chapter 7: Motherhood and Fatherhood in Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These.- Chapter 8: “A mother is not an endless thing”: Undoing the Spectral Mother in Sally Rooney’s Fiction.- Chapter 9: Presence as Absence: Emilie Pine’s Language of Infertility.- Chapter 10: From Disenfranchised Grief to Magical Transformations: Deirdre Sullivan’s Posthuman Literary Representations of Stillbirth Trauma.- Chapter 11: Burdened Bodies: Reproductive Oppression, Institutional Trauma, and Literary Resistance in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing.- Chapter 12: Queerness at the Intersection of Motherhood, Vulnerability and Irishness: An Analysis of Passage (2001) by Deirdre Kinahan.- Chapter 13: Alternative Motherhoods in Lesbian Communities: Chosen Families in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction.