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First-edition Gulliver's Travels expected to fetch close to €100k


 
On February 18th this year, cheers erupted around the world while viewers watched Nasa’s Perseverance robot land on Mars. It was the 10th-ever landing on the red planet, which began with the Soviet Union in 1971. Though located 300 million miles and a seven-month journey from earth, the planet has an interesting Irish link.
One of the planets’ moons – Deimos – has an abyss called Swift Crater, in memory of the ramblings of Lemuel Gulliver, the pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift in his 1726 masterpiece, Gulliver’s Travels. The noted Irish satirist and poet, who became dean of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, wrote the bulk of the tome at Woodbrook House in Co Laois. In his withering dissection of human folly he asserted that Mars had two moons, a fact that was not proven until 150 years later. ....

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The Assault on Greatness


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Watching a series of movies and biopics dealing with extraordinary individuals, one notes a ubiquitous and disconcerting tendency to debunk or diminish their rare achievements and remarkable characters. It is almost as if a spirit of envy or resentment is implicit in what purports to be a celebration or, at the very least, a neutral account of their accomplishments.
For example, the Netflix blockbuster
The Crown delivers an entirely unflattering portrait of Britain’s brilliant and most effective prime minister since Churchill, Margaret Thatcher. It was Thatcher’s clarity and determination her “intimidating personality and her complete mastery of the business in hand,” as David Cannadine writes in ....

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