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Satirist, novelist, and essayist Jonathan Swift, oil painting by Charles Jervas; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
In the Irish literature epic Buile Suibhne ("The Madness of Sweeney"), King Suibhne Geilt is cursed to wander Ireland and live like a wild bird in the trees. This fate befalls him after he attacks a churchman, St. RĂłnĂĄn, in retaliation for the loud ringing of his church bell.1