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Apes and angels

Cover of the 1997 edition

Apes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian Caricature is a 1971 book (a revised edition was published in 1997) by L. Perry Curtis which, while concentrating on the "simian" stereotype of the Irish in English and American cartoons, also includes material on Irish cartoonists of the period, contrasting the "Paddy" of the English imagination with the Irish self-image of "Pat".

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