• Floating hell: the brutal history of prison hulks 

  McKay, Anna (Immediate Media Company; BBC Studio Distribution, 2022-10-27)
• ‘Black butter melting and opening underfoot’: the ‘peat harvest’ in Irish literature and culture 

  O'Connor, Maureen; Gearey, Benjamin (Taylor & Francis, 2021-02-24)

  In this paper, we discuss ‘turf-cutting’, or the ‘harvest’ of peat, a centuries-long agricultural practice in Ireland. Although healthy peatlands are known to be carbon sinks, calls for the end of peat cutting are controversial ...
• “Single Out the Devalued”: The figure of the nonhuman animal in Eavan Boland’s poetry 

  O'Connor, Maureen (Associação Brasileira de Estudos Irlandeses and University of São Paulo, 2021-05-23)

  Boland has argued that “good nature poets are always subversive” and, though she did not identify as a nature poet, she compares her praxis to theirs: “their lexicon is the overlooked and the disregarded…. They single out ...
• Alice's Garden: Imagining agency in the natural world in Clare Boylan's Black Baby 

  O'Connor, Maureen (Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI), 2020-10-31)

  The Irish writer Clare Boylan is something of a forgotten figure, despite enjoying significant literary success in her lifetime. Because of her untimely death, little critical work has been done on her fiction. Her blackly ...
• Gnýs ævintýr 

  Love, Jeffrey S.; Stegman, Beeke; Birkett, Thomas (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2016)

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