Swift’s Monsters: Irish Identity and Gulliver’s Travels (With

Swift’s Monsters: Irish Identity and Gulliver’s Travels (With Dónal Gill)

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Join Cian & Dónal at the cabin for another October monster episode .... this time, the monsters of Gulliver's Travels! We discuss: -Swift's life and identity as an Irishman -The place of the Anglo-Irish and Church of Ireland in the 18th Century -Gullivar's Travels, the four books -The Lilliputians, The Brobdingnagians, Laputa, & the Yahoos Wide Atlantic Weird Store https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10108989

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