Punch,  42 (1862), 120.

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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