A New Specimen of Parliamentary Natural History
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Race, Politics, Animal Behaviour, Human Development |
Following a suggestion that the Irish politician Myles W P O'Reilly should 'change his name' to 'represent the class he properly belongs to', insists that he be called 'G' O'Reilly', and later, 'Gorilla'—another Punch identification of the Irish with apes. |
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