Swift's Gulliver's Travels Reaches Its 300th Anniversary

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A Trinity College Dublin exhibition traces the book's history.

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Source: Trinity College Dublin, 2026-10-15.

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Read and understand · 1/2Where and when was Gulliver's Travels first published? London on October 28, 1726 Dublin on October 28, 2026 London at the end of December 2026

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London on October 28, 1726. The passage gives London and October 28, 1726 as the place and date of first publication.

Clue: Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was first published anonymously in London on October 28, 1726. Three centuries later, Trinity College Dublin is marking the anniversary with an exhibition in the Old Library's Long Room.

Read and understand · 2/2How does the passage explain satire? Writing that can use humour to question human behaviour A factual list of library opening hours A promise that a story describes only real places

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Writing that can use humour to question human behaviour. The passage describes satire as writing that can use humour to question behaviour.

Clue: The novel follows a traveller through imagined societies, including Lilliput, whose inhabitants are tiny. Trinity describes the work as satire: writing that can use humour to question human behaviour. The exhibition remains on display until the end of December 2026.

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The book was published in 1726; the Dublin exhibition marks its anniversary 300 years later and remains on display through December 2026.

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