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Julian Gaskell

The band (named after the novel by Robert Tressell) would later come to include Dan Pye on Guitar and Rory Pugh on drums as well as a number of other guest players.

Robert Tressell

Declan Kiberd has argued that Pádraic Ó Conaire's seminal novel in Irish, Deoraíocht, has many parallels in its progressive socialism with Tressell's The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists.

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