Luke Gibbons
Articles by Luke Gibbons
2024
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History
The Third Man
2023
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Literature
Big House to Little House
2020
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Irish History
Breaking Their Will
The physical violation of the body in force-feeding, introduced against suffragettes, highlighted issues of domination, servitude, and the desire to humiliate. Infinitely worse than the…
2019
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Irish History
The Cream Separatist Movement
Is the country destined to always lag behind the city? Sinn Féin, a creation of the urban bourgeois intelligentsia, took off as a national movement…
2018
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Irish Art / Culture
Once Upon a Space
One of the main concerns of Brian O’Doherty’s collected essays is to raise questions about the retreat into subjectivity responsible for the cult of the…
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World Literature
The Other Side of the Sky
For some it is only a matter of time before the digital world catches up with its human creators, but for Wittgenstein it was a…
2015
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Irish Literature
No Homes To Go To
Dorothy Macardle was a friend of de Valera, an historian of the idea of the Irish Republic and a novelist. Her story ‘The Uninvited’, memorably…
Blog Posts by Luke Gibbons
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Brian O’Doherty: 1928-2022
November 16, 2022 -
Seamus Deane: 1940-2021
May 21, 2021