The Long Exile of Jonathan Swift starring and 1737: Exiled to the Deanery of St Patrick's, Dublin, the formidable satirist celebrates his 70th birthday. Outside the starving Irish peasantry gather to receive alms. No one fully grasps his genius - not even his old friend, Tom Sheridan : ,... a patriot who hates the land of his birth, a Protestant who speaks for the whole people of Ireland, a great writer whose masterpiece, a savage satire on human vanity, is remembered only as a children's book- Gulliver's Travels.'
Script by DAVID NOKES Music GEORGE FENTON
Costume designer BARBARA KIDD Make-up artist JOAN STRIBLING Designer JIM CLAY
Film cameraman JOHN HOOPER Film editor ANGUS NEWTON Directed by TRISTRAM POWELL
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