Gulliver’s Travels at 300: a satire of the Anglo-Irish and the folly of allegiance to empire
Gulliver Exhibited to the Brobdingnag Farmer (from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels) by Richard Redgrave (1836) V&A, CC BY-NC Gulliver’s Travels, first published on October 28 1726, is a masterpiece of satire that continues to have the power to provoke, to amuse, and to shock. Most readers familiar with it will know that its author, Jonathan Swift, was not only Irish-born but was Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin when he wrote what is unquestionably his greatest work. What they may not…
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london: 51.510, -0.130
dublin: 53.350, -6.260
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