Irish tracts 1720-1723

This collection brings together the pamphlets Swift wrote about Ireland in the early 1720s, a time of economic hardship under English trade restrictions. They include his call for Irish people to wear and use Irish goods, and the early Drapier's Letters, which urged the public to refuse a new copper coinage. Written with anger, irony and practical argument, they helped make Swift a hero to many in Ireland. They show his political side and his deep concern for the country where he lived.