Title Animals in Irish society : interspecies oppression and vegan liberation in Britain's first colony / Corey Lee Wrenn

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Intro -- 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 Summary The first exploration of vegan Irish epistemology, one that can be traced along its history of animism, agrarianism, ascendency, adaptation, and activism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Animal rights -- Ireland Animals -- Social aspects -- Ireland Veganism -- Social aspects -- Ireland Animal rights Animals -- Social aspects Ireland Form Electronic book ISBN 9781438484365 1438484364

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