Luke Gibbons
Biography
Luke Gibbons has taught as professor of Irish Studies at Maynooth University and has published widely on Irish culture and criticism. His books include James Joyce and the Irish Revolution: The Easter Rising as Modern Event (2023) and Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime (2003).
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