Swift Room
Jonathan Swift imagined seeing a giant reposing in the Belfast Hills, and you can see the Divis and Black Mountain from this window. A soft and light room in blue and white toile, it is a quiet room set at the top of the house.
This room includes:
Room
Sleeps 2
Eco-Friendly Toiletries
Double
Bed
Mahogany Floorboards
Antiqued Radiators
Rain
Shower
Unique City Map
About Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer. When Swift lived in Kilroot outside Belfast he make his way along the main Shore Road to see his girlfriend Jane Waring. She was later to turn down his mariage proposal which he was not happy about at all. On these travels into the city he observed the form what looked like a sleeping giant on the outline of cave hills which inspired his best known novel Gullivers Travels. He also would have walked past Lilliput farm which inspired the Land of Lilliput mentioned in the book.
