We are delighted to inform you of the publication of the special issue 15.2 of our journal Estudios Irlandeses, guest edited by Margarita Estévez-Saá, Manuela Palacios-González and Noemí Pereira-Ares (University of Santiago de Compostela), with the title “Eco-Fictions, The Animal Trope and Irish Studies”. We want to express our warmest congratulations to the guest editors, for having put together a selection of high quality articles dealing with such urgent issue in our current times. Please, find enclosed the Front cover and index. The contents can be accessed in the following link: https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/issue/issue-15-2/.
We would like to acknowledge the work of this special issue carried out by the former, general editor of Estudios Irlandeses, José Francisco Fernandez, and his editorial team, for the support of the proposal in its initial stages and for their assistance during the present editorial production .
Our most heartfelt thanks to our colleagues in the editorial team, Asier Altuna-García de Salazar (University of Deusto) and Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides (University of Huelva) for their ceaseless and rigorous work, and for their generous and committed contribution to the development of Irish Studies in Spain.