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Which school did Jonathan Swift attend as a child?
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift, detail of an oil painting by Charles Jervas, c. 1718; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
At the age of six, Jonathan Swift was sent to the Kilkenny School, which was considered the best school in Ireland at that time.1