Drapier’s Letters

…his Irish writings, the “Drapier’s Letters” (1724–25) and “A Modest Proposal” (1729) are the best known. The first is a series of letters attacking the English government for its scheme to supply Ireland with copper halfpence and farthings. “A Modest Proposal” is a grimly ironic letter of advice in…

…political goals is demonstrated by The Drapier’s Letters (1724–25), part of a successful campaign to prevent the imposition of a new, and debased, coinage on Ireland. Swift had hoped for preferment in the English church, but his destiny lay in Ireland, and the ambivalent nature of his relationship to that…

In The Drapier’s Letters (1724–25), Swift asked: