Introduction
Eóin Flannery and Eugene O’Brien
Chapter 1. Marine Ecologies of Irish Literature
Nicholas Allen
Chapter 2. “He shoos a goose”: Welcoming the ‘Protected’ Geese of Scott McKendry’s GUB
Jessica Bundschuh
Chapter 3. Animals and Sound in Medieval Irish Poetry
Máirtín Coilféir
Chapter 4. “Fish cannot be metaphorical”: Salmon, Trout, and Herring in the Irish Literary Imagination
Colleen Taylor
Chapter 5. “Being human never did...any good”: Redefining Society in Sara Baume’s Spill Simmer Falter Wither
Kate Costello-Sullivan
Chapter 6. ‘Alone and Mirrored’: Seamus Heaney and Avian Alterity
Eugene O’Brien
Chapter 7. Absence and Extinction: The birds and the bees in contemporary Irish poetry’
Eoin Flannery
Chapter 8. Rewilding the Irish Poem
Kathryn Kirkpatrick
Chapter 9. Queer Love, the Nonhuman Animal, and Anthropocenic Grief in Rosamund Taylor’s In Her Jaws
Maureen O’Connor
Chapter 10. Badgers in Ireland: An Interspecies Cultural Case Study
Niamh Donnellan
Chapter 11. The Human and the Animal: From Critical Anthropomorphism to Weak Humanism in Anne Haverty’s One Day as a Tiger and Sara Baume’s spill simmer falter wither
Margarita Estévez-Saá
Chapter 12. “Mad About Birds”: Eamon Grennan’s There Now
Eamonn Wall
Index
Biography
Eóin Flannery is Associate Professor of English Literature in the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. He has published over 70 scholarly articles and book chapters, and is the author of five books, including Ireland and Ecocriticism (Routledge, 2016).
Eugene O’Brien is Professor of Contemporary English Literature and Theory and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. He is series editor of the Routledge Studies in Irish Literature series and author and co-editor of several books, including The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Century Irish Writing (co-edited with Anne Fogarty; Routledge, 2024) and Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation (co-edited with Ian Hickey; Routledge, 2025).
