Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution : Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland /

In the 1700s, not all revolutions involved combat. Jonathan Swift, proving the pen is mightier than the sword, wrote scathing satires of England and, by so doing, fostered a growing sense of Irishness among the people who lived on the large island to the left of London. This sense of Irish nationali...

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