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Luke Gibbons spoke at the Galway launch of the new edition of the land war memoir, The Material for Victory: The Memoirs of Andrew J. Kettle, edited by Professor Niamh Reilly with Dr. Jane O'Brien, and published by the Open Press at University of Galway. After introductions by Professor Breandán MacSuibhne, Luke spoke about Andrew J. Kettle's role as a co-founder of the Irish National Land League, along with Parnell and Davitt, the less-examined progressive aspects of the movement for peasant proprietorship with which Kettle is strongly associated, the ups and downs of Kettle's own public reception in tandem with Parnell's, and Kettle's striking use of dialogue throughout the memoirs akin to a novel writer in the crafting of insider stories. Luke Gibbons has taught as Professor of Irish Studies at Maynooth University and the University of Notre Dame, USA.  His most recent book is James Joyce and the Irish Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2023).