Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swifts A Modest Proposal
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Terms

• Roman Catholic the original type of Christian
  church
• Protestant Any Christian church that is NOT
  Catholic
• Anglican a member of the Church of England (a
  specific type of Protestant church)
• Papist a Roman Catholic person (slightly
  derogatory)
• Absentee Landlord someone who owns land in a
  country and rents it out, but lives and spends
  the money in a different country (if you owned
  and rented out a condo in Canada and lived here)

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• Situational Irony Occurs when a character or the
  reader expects one thing to happen but something
  else actually happens. There is a great
  difference between the purpose of a particular
  action and the result.
• Verbal Irony Occurs when a writer or character
  says one thing but means another.
• Dramatic Irony Occurs when the reader or viewer
  knows something that a character does not know.
  The audience sees a character's mistakes, but the
  character does not.
• Allusion A reference in a speech to a familiar
  person, place or thing. Usually the reference is
  about something historical, mythical, or
  legendary.
• Tone The attitude the writer or speaker takes
  toward a subject. It reflects the feelings of
  the writer or speaker. The choice of words and
  details given help establish the tone, which
  might be serious, humorous, sarcastic, playful,
  ironic, bitter, or objective.

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How it all started
Ireland
Roman Catholic
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Ireland
Roman Catholic
1534
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Church of England (Anglican church)
England
Ireland
Roman Catholic
1534
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Church of England (Anglican church)
England
Ireland
Ireland
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic
1534
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Church of England (Anglican church)
England
Ireland
Ireland
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic
1534
England charges Ireland high rent, takes over
parliament, passes Anti-Catholic legislation
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1536 Irish parliament makes Henry VIII head of the Church of Ireland. However, Reformation makes little progress in Ireland. Vast majority of Irish still Catholic.
1541 King Henry VIII is determined to re-assert his authority over Ireland. He changes his title from Lord of Ireland to king. The Irish parliament assents.
1603 Enforcement of English Law in Ireland.
1641 Catholics hold 59 of land in Ireland.
1649 English soldier statesman, Oliver Cromwell, landed at Dublin. His troops killed 2,000 men. Land was confiscated and divided among the English soldiers
1653 Cromwell decides to confiscate land held by Irish Catholics.
1656 Over 60,000 Irish Catholics sent as slaves to Barbados/other islands in Caribbean.
1658 Population of Ireland (around 1,500,000, before Cromwell) was reduced by two-thirds, to 500,000, at Cromwell's death in 1658.
1672 Over 6,000 Irish boys/women sold as slaves since England gained control of Jamaica.
1688 Catholics now hold 22 of land in Ireland.
1692 Exclusion of Catholics from Parliament and all professions.
1695 Anti-Catholic Penal Laws Introduced. Catholics hold 14 of land in Ireland.
1714 Catholics hold 7 of land in Ireland.
1727 Catholics are deprived of the right to vote
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Church of England (Anglican church)
England
Ireland
Ireland
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic
1729 Modest Proposal
1534
England charges Ireland high rent, takes over
parliament, passes Anti-Catholic legislation
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Jonathan Swift

• Born in Hoeys Alley, Dublin, Ireland in 1667, to
  English parents (Church of England, Anglican).
• After his father died, his mother went back to
  England, and Swift was raised by his fathers
  wealthy family in Ireland.
• He became an Anglican minister, went to England,
  came back to Ireland to be a minister there (in
  Church of England)
• Always wanted to return to England (he loved it
  there), but church kept giving him positions in
  Ireland.
• Anglican, but sympathetic to the Irish cause,
  became strong defender of Irish rights.
• Considered most distinguished satirist in English
  language.
• Died in Dublin on October 19,1745.