Podcast

Animals in Irish Society explores the vegan Irish epistemology, one that can be traced along Ireland’s history of animism, agrarianism, ascendency, adaptation, and activism. This podcast series contributes to the growing field of postcolonial Critical Animal Studies by applying theories vegan feminism and vegan socialism to the Irish context. From its zoomorphic pagan roots to its legacy of vegetarianism, the country has been more receptive to the interests of other animals than is currently acknowledged. More than a land of “meat” and potatoes, Ireland exists as a relevant, if overlooked, contributor to Western vegan thought.

Episode 1 | Animism in Ancient Ireland

Episode 2 | The Church and Medieval Ireland

Episode 3 | Land of Meat and Potatoes?

Episode 4 | The Great Famine

Episode 5 | The Troubles

Episode 6 | Irish Animal Activism

Learn more in my forthcoming book Animal in Irish Society forthcoming with SUNY Press July 2021.

Dr. Wrenn is Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements. She was awarded Exemplary Diversity Scholar, 2016 by the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity. She served as council member with the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society section (2013-2016), was elected Chair in 2018, and is co-founder of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists. She serves as Book Review Editor to Society & Animals and is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee. Dr. Wrenn has been published in several peer-reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Gender Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Environmental Values, Disability & Society, Food, Culture & Society, and Society & Animals. In July 2013, she founded the Vegan Feminist Network, an academic-activist project engaging intersectional social justice praxis. She is the author of A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (Palgrave MacMillan 2016), Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019), and Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021).

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