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| Titre : | “The Grand Question debated” : Jonathan Swift, Army Barracks, Parliament and Money (2016) |
| Auteurs : | Charles Ivar MCGRATH, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Eighteenth-Century Ireland (vol. 31 2016) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 119-138 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | Jonathan Swift made a name for himself in England in the years 1710-14 taking issue in print with, among other things, Standing Armies, the British National Debt, and Westminster MPs. After more than a decade of silence on such subjects, Swift re-visited them in the late 1720s and early 1730s in relation to Ireland as part of his expression of anger about what, in his eyes, was fundamentally wrong with Hanoverian government in the British Isles. This article assesses his reasons for doing so and looks to address how such matters help us to better understand the nature of Irish government, politics and society at that time. |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Lieu de publication : | Dublin |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
