Yesterday morning was devoted to an Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society committee meeting in South William Street in Dublin. There, in elegant stuccoed surroundings, we convened one of our regular Continue reading Swift’s footnotes, sinister slush funds, suspect patronage and the peculiar horrors of Holyhead
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Resources: A Modest Proposal

In the publication, Swift recommends a scheme that would prevent children from being ‘a charge upon their parents or the parish, or wanting food and raiment for Continue reading Resources: A Modest Proposal