Title: A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

Subject: Background of Ireland and Swift

Date: 18,04,24

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In 1720’s financial crisis took place in ireland, due to a steep rise in prices and it followed by food riots. The learned Irish people, offered a boycot to English goods and buy Irish goods only. The English monarchy and the parliament prohibeted Irish traders to export their own goods to any other country. The parliament also dictated that Irish people should pay rent to absentees, the rich Irish and English landlords who asked from tennants to pay extremly high rent. This lead Irish people to evacuate their own houses and to move outskirts where they live in miserable conditions.

the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor clothes to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather

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