James Joyce and the Irish Revolution - The Easter Rising As Modern Event

A provocative history of Ulysses and the Easter Rising as harbingers of decolonization.

When revolutionaries seized Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising, they looked back to unrequited pasts to point the way toward radical futures--transforming the Celtic Twilight into the electric light of modern Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses. For Luke Gibbons, the short-lived rebellion converted the Irish renaissance into the beginning of a global decolonial movement. James Joyce and the Irish Revolution maps connections between modernists and radicals, tracing not only Joyce's projection of Ireland onto the world stage, but also how revolutionary leaders like Ernie O'Malley turned to Ulysses to make sense of their shattered worlds. Coinciding with the centenary of both Ulysses and Irish independence, this book challenges received narratives about the rebellion and the novel that left Ireland changed, changed utterly.

About the author

Luke Gibbons has taught as professor of Irish Studies at Maynooth University, Ireland, and the University of Notre Dame and has published widely on Irish culture and criticism.

Product details

• Authors: Luke Gibbons, Professor Luke Gibbons
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9780226824475
• ISBN: 978-0-226-82447-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; European History, English, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Ireland, British & Irish history, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, 1916–1922 (Irish Revolutionary period), HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions