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Gulliver’s Travels at 300: a satire of the Anglo-Irish and the folly of allegiance to empire

by Clíona Ó Gallchoir

Travel to England made Swift feel like an oppressed Irish colonial subject while at home he felt like a powerful civilising cog of that same empire.

https://theconversation.com/gullivers-travels-at-300-a-satire-of-the-anglo-irish-and-the-folly-of-allegiance-to-empire-295211?utm_campaign=the-daily-40115&utm_content=the-daily-40115_uk%7C2%7C40115%7C0547a0c9&utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze&utm_term=The+Conversation

We have this book in multiple editions and languages:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Gulliver%E2%80%99s+Travels

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Gulliver Exhibited to the Brobdingnag Farmer (from Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels) by Richard Redgrave.

A cracked oil painting of a tiny man in a red coat and white breeches, hand on hip, peering at a giant face with round spectacles that looms from the right. Enormous faces fill the dark background, with a bowl, bread, grapes and dice below.

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