Note to readers: Jonathan Swift published "A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to ...

In 1729, British clergyman Jonathan Swift penned a biting satire to solve the growing disparity of wealth arising from the exploitative English rule of Ireland. His “modest proposal” to solve the ...

Writer David Quinn has taken Jonathan Swift’s brilliant “modest proposal” of 1729 — that the “excess” children of the poor in Ireland be recycled as a delicacy for the tables of the rich — and recast ...

In 1729, Jonathan Swift wrote A Modest Proposal, which, according to Wikipedia, " Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for ...

In 1729 the Irish writer Johnathan Swift wrote a satirical essay titled "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making ...

In 1729, Jonathan Swift published the most famous satirical essay in the English language: “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents ...

In 1729, Jonathan Swift wrote “A Modest Proposal,” his satirical answer to the famine and poverty in Ireland. Solution: Poor families could sell their children to wealthy people, who would consume ...