History

Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift

by Jonathan Swift

Swift was made Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin in 1713, and in the 1720s began to write for Ireland against the laws that kept it poor. These are his Irish tracts from 1720 to 1734, the years of the Drapier and of A Modest Proposal, chosen by John Bowles Daly. Gulliver’s Travels was written in the same deanery, and published in 1726.

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About 4 hr 5 min

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Project Gutenberg, eBook #37156. In the public domain in the United States.