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11 Apr 08 - 03:41 PM (#2313209) Subject: BS: Gulliver in Dublin From: Gulliver Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, has been chosen for this year's "Dublin: One City, One Book" festival, so there are events relating to it taking place around the city this month (April). More information here and here I just had to mention this! |
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11 Apr 08 - 03:45 PM (#2313213) Subject: RE: BS: Gulliver in Dublin From: John MacKenzie A modest proposal G |
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12 Apr 08 - 10:48 AM (#2313670) Subject: RE: BS: Gulliver in Dublin From: Ernest Giok answered very swiftly..... ;0) Ernest |
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12 Apr 08 - 05:44 PM (#2313914) Subject: RE: BS: Gulliver in Dublin From: Little Robyn YUCK!!! I trust this was tongue in cheek? Robyn |
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13 Apr 08 - 06:48 AM (#2314138) Subject: RE: BS: Gulliver in Dublin From: Seán Báite Gulliver, Pity the second site doesn't have archive links to the previous bukes featured - at least, I couldn't find one (I think there have been a few, correct me if I'm wrong). Am I right to assume that Dublin's politicians will be conducting themselves in a suitably Lilliputian manner for the forseeable in homage to the bauld Dean ? Naw, hauld on - they do it so well already, they don't even have to try. Eh, Bert ? |
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14 Apr 08 - 02:17 PM (#2315370) Subject: RE: BS: Gulliver in Dublin From: Gulliver Hiya Seán, this is the third year. The book for 2006 was At Swim-Two-Birds, by Flann O'Brien. Last year it was A Long Long Way, by Sebastian Barry. |
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14 Apr 08 - 05:32 PM (#2315580) Subject: RE: BS: Gulliver in Dublin From: Thompson Whose tongue in whose cheek, though? Delicious little poor-people's-babies' tongues in the cheeks of the rich? |
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15 Apr 08 - 03:52 PM (#2316549) Subject: RE: BS: Gulliver in Dublin From: BuckMulligan almost 300 years later and someone's still not getting it... |
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15 Apr 08 - 07:00 PM (#2316766) Subject: RE: BS: Gulliver in Dublin From: Mrrzy ? When did Gulliver travel to Ireland? Were they the brobdigthingies or the lilliputians, and why is the small word so much more memorable than the big one? |
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15 Apr 08 - 08:00 PM (#2316813) Subject: RE: BS: Gulliver in Dublin From: Gulliver Actually, I was born here--among the little people. |