Swift’s Irish Writings: Selected Prose and Poetry

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Story of the Injured Lady (1707)....Pages 3-9
A Letter from a Member of the House of Commons in Ireland, Concerning the Sacramental Test (1708)....Pages 11-23
A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture (1720)....Pages 25-32
The Last Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezor Elliston (1722)....Pages 33-36
The Drapier’s Letters (1724): Letter I. To the Shop-keepers, Tradesmen, Farmers, and Common-People of Ireland....Pages 37-46
The Drapier’s Letters (1724): Letter II. To Mr. Harding....Pages 47-55
The Drapier’s Letters (1724): Letter IV. To the Whole People of Ireland....Pages 57-70
The Drapier’s Letters (1724): Letter V. To Lord Viscount Molesworth....Pages 71-83
Doing Good: A Sermon (1724)....Pages 85-91
A Short View of the State of Ireland (1728)....Pages 93-99
The Intelligencer, Number XIX (1728)....Pages 101-107
An Answer to a Paper, Called A Memorial (1728) ....Pages 109-115
Maxims Controlled in Ireland (1729)....Pages 117-122
A Modest Proposal (1729)....Pages 123-131
Sermon, Causes of the Wretched Condition of Ireland (late 1720s-early 1730s?)....Pages 133-141
A Proposal to Pay off the Debt of the Nation (1732)....Pages 143-147
An Examination of Certain Abuses, Corruptions, and Enormities in the City of Dublin (1732)....Pages 149-161
The Humble Petition of the Footmen of Dublin (1732)....Pages 163-165
Reasons Humbly Offered to the Parliament of Ireland (1733)....Pages 167-176
Advice to the Free-Men of Dublin (1733)....Pages 177-182
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Dialogue in Hybernian Stile Between A. and B.; and Irish Eloquence (mid-1730s?)....Pages 183-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
The Humble Petition of Frances Harris (1701)....Pages 189-192
Mary the Cook-Maid’s Letter (1718)....Pages 193-194
The Description of an Irish-Feast (1720)....Pages 195-197
An Excellent New Song on a Seditious Pamphlet (1720)....Pages 199-200
An Epilogue to a Play for the Benefit of the Weavers (1721)....Pages 201-203
The Part of a Summer (1721)....Pages 205-209
Stella at Wood-Park (1723)....Pages 211-214
Prometheus (1724)....Pages 215-217
Whitshed’s Motto on His Coach (1724)....Pages 219-220
On Wood the Iron-monger (1725)....Pages 221-222
To Quilca, a Country House in no very good Repair (1725)....Pages 223-224
Horace, Book I., Ode XIV (“Paraphrased and Inscribed to Ireland”) (1726?)....Pages 225-227
Irel[an]d (1727)....Pages 229-231
My Lady’s Lamentation and Complaint against the Dean (1728)....Pages 233-238
Verses Occasioned by the Sudden Drying up of St. Patrick’s Well (1729?)....Pages 239-243
Drapier’s Hill (1729)....Pages 245-246
A Pastoral Dialogue (1729)....Pages 247-249
On the Irish-Club (1730)....Pages 251-252
An Excellent New Ballad; or the True English Dean to be Hanged for a Rape (1730)....Pages 253-256
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
On the Irish Bishops (1732)....Pages 257-260
The Yahoo’s Overthrow (1734)....Pages 261-264
On a Printer’s Being Sent to Newgate (1736)....Pages 265-265
A Character, Panegyric, and Description of the Legion Club (1736)....Pages 267-274
Ay and No, A Tale from Dublin (1737)....Pages 275-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-281