It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction of a factory in West
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I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little, odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed up on the strange island of Lilliput, a land inhabited by quarrelsome miniature people. On his travels he continues to meet others who force him to reflect on human behaviour
- the giants of Brobdingnag, the Houyhnhnms & the Yahoos. In this scathing satire on the politics & morals of the 18th Century, Swift's condemnation of society & its institutions still resonates today.