1. The full title of Swift’s work was “Gulliver’s Travels or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships”.
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 lover Esther Vanhomrigh.
4. In letters between Swift and “Vanessa”, the word “coffee” was a coded reference to sex.
5. In Gulliver’s Travels, he predicted the existence of the two major moons of Mars and used Kepler’s Theorem to calculate their orbital periods.
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6. Because of this, Swift Crater on the Martian Moon Deimos is named after him.
7. Since 1726 when it was published anonymously, Gulliver’s Travels has never been out of print.
8. The Oxford English Dictionary lists Swift as the first person to use the word “cowboy”.
9. Swift died aged 77, leaving his money to found a hospital for the mentally ill which opened in 1757 as “St Patrick’s Hospital for Imbeciles”.
10. “There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy,” (Jonathan Swift).