Luke Gibbons Book order

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.

Two hundred years after her death, Mary Shelley is alive, granted immunity from death by the Fifth Estate, a vampire-led organization that prevents the world from being overrun by sentient zombies. She is among many human storytellers, including Bram Stoker and George Romero, tasked with revealing the presence of the undead. Their works have prepared society for an impending judgment day, with even organizations like the CDC unknowingly contributing through contingency plans. However, the world has changed; people are desensitized and no longer fear what goes bump in the night. In our ignorance, vampires have become guardians while zombies have evolved into more cunning and strategic threats. Humanity, now facing extinction, must confront the reality of a zombie apocalypse, but it may be too late, as the attack has already begun. Zombies have evolved over centuries, no longer slow and mindless; they now use guile and science to attack. Their latest invention is a vaccine for H1N1 that turns its recipients into full-fledged zombies. Contrary to popular belief, a zombie bite or scratch won't transform you, as they leave nothing to turn. Zombies are the ultimate predators, and like Shelley's Frankenstein, only science can create one. Once the latest flu was labeled a global pandemic, humanity's fight was over before it even began.