Saturday 12 July 2014

Dean Swift Road

I grew up in Dean Swift Road, in Dublin 11.

We were in the area recently and the kids asked me to drive by the house where I grew up. I took this photo of the sign at the top of the road.

Dean Swift is, of course, a reference to the Irish author Jonathan Swift who wrote Gulliver's Travels. Swift became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, where he was buried on his death in 1745.

I guess I should have, but I have never read Gulliver's Travels. And, to be frank, it's not on my reading list.