The gusts of wind were so strong that the vessel Jonathan Swift was blown back onto its berth as it tried to leave for Dublin from Holyhead and the 650 passengers had to disembark as a precaution.

In Four Parts … By Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships”, it is one of ... Dean of St. Patrick’s in Dublin, Jonathan Swift. Swift wrote that his satiric ...

2. As well as being a noted satirist, essayist and pamphleteer, Swift became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. 3. The female name “Vanessa” was invented by Jonathan Swift for his ...

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was one of the top-ranking ... several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver who served as a physician on a ship. His ship drowned during one voyage but he somehow swam to the ...

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) had the most coruscating mind and enigmatic character of any writer in English. Sturdily built, with bright blue eyes, bristling brows and double chin, he was an ...

Jonathan Swift, we need you more than ever. This week marks the 350th birthday of the brilliant Irish writer, born Nov. 30, 1667. That we know of Swift at all is one of the sweetest fortunes of ...

While most of Jonathan Swift's political and satirical tracts — all published anonymously or under assumed names — might be called ephemera of genius, "Gulliver's Travels" (1726) is a ...