• "More than Kin and More than Kind": Lady Sydney Morgan and Lady Olivia Clarke 

  Connolly, Claire (Royal Irish Academy, 2022-08)
• Formations and deformations of Empire: Maria Edgeworth and the West Indies 

  Connolly, Claire (Manchester University Press (Studies in Imperialism), 2023-02)

  This chapter trace the threads of scattered details, repeated images and occasional plot twists found in the fiction and letters of Maria Edgeworth in order to consider the scope and extent of her engagement with the West ...
• Death and the nonhuman in Elizabeth Bowen's Fiction 

  O'Connor, Maureen (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021-08-21)

  The Renaissance and the Enlightenment, revolutions in ‘Western’ thought, asserted the superiority of humanist, rationalist modes of engaging with and understanding the phenomenal world over traditional technologies of ...
• Patterns of interference: The ethics of diffraction in Mike McCormack's solar bones 

  O'Connor, Maureen (Routledge, 2021-07-30)

  The metaphor of diffraction provides an alternative to the metaphor of the mirror that science has claimed it holds up to reality, establishing and perpetuating the idea of objective, scientific “truth” regarding the natural ...
• Animals and animality in Irish fiction 

  O'Connor, Maureen (Cambridge University Press, 2022-07-14)

  This chapter charts a transhistorical narrative to analyze the evolving permutations encoded within human–animal binarisms. Maureen O’Connor argues that “The native Irish were long believed to have powers of human–animal ...

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