Known as “the Ascendancy,” the Anglicans held much of the wealth and political power in Ireland despite their comparably diminutive numbers. At odds with Catholics, Anglicans were also averse to Presbyterians who were doctrinally different. The Anglican Church, a Protestant denomination, arose in the wake of King Henry VIII’s break with Rome. Surrounded by the sea, the Emerald Isle’s inhabitants were overwhelmingly Roman Catholic. Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1667. Then there are the Yahoos - a word coined by Swift - depicted as uncivilized savages and all too human. And he meets the Houyhnhnms, horses that excel homo sapiens in cerebration. Elsewhere, the errant traveler encounters hopelessly self-absorbed intellectuals.
You’ve probably heard of Jonathan Swift, known famously as the author of “Gulliver’s Travels.” That perennially favorite tale is a hilarious saga as the wayward Lemuel Gulliver finds himself a giant in one realm, a minim in another.
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