Fans mark three centuries of Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels with events in Ireland

Summary

Fans of Gulliver's Travels are marking 300 years since Jonathan Swift's satire first appeared, with events in Ireland exploring the book's origins. Swift, then dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, arranged in March 1726 for a courier to deliver his manuscript to a London publisher under cover of night, wanting to publish it anonymously. Published that October as Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, the work became an instant hit and is now better known as Gulliver's Travels.

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1. The Guardian

   28 Oct 2026, 05:00 UTCSource ↗

   Reports that events in Ireland explore the origins of Gulliver's Travels, recalling that Dublin clergyman Jonathan Swift had a manuscript delivered to a publisher under cover of night in March 1726, before the satire was published that October.