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    independent of Britain in the Drapier's Letters. Since the subject was politically sensitive, Swift wrote under the pseudonym M. B., Drapier, to hide from retaliation...
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    Jonathan Swift (redirect from M. B. Drapier)
    memorable works: Proposal for Universal Use of Irish Manufacture (1720), Drapier's Letters (1724), and A Modest Proposal (1729), earning him the status of...
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  • Antonin-Fernand Drapier (28 April 1891 – 30 July 1967) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See...
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    wrote a series of satirical pamphlets in the guise of a draper called the Drapier's Letters. A number of notable people who have at one time or another worked...
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    written in 1724; but amendments were made even while Swift was writing Drapier's Letters. By August 1725 the book was complete; and as Gulliver's Travels...
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  • created by third level institutions on the island of Ireland. DRAPIer was named after Drapier's Letters - a series of seven pamphlets written between 1724...
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    the Good Shepherd in pastoral music. April 28 – The first of the seven Drapier's Letters, satirical pamphlets seeking to arouse public opinion in Ireland...
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    South Wall (1700s) and Bull Wall (1820s) Dublin election riot (1713) Drapier's Letters (1724-5) Linenhall (1728-1916) Hell Fire Club (1735-1741) Premiere...
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    the country with inferior coins, leading Jonathan Swift to write his Drapier's Letters. In political matters, she had much influence with the king, and...
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  • Ireland Monarch: George I March – Jonathan Swift publishes the first of the Drapier's Letters (A Letter To the Shop-Keepers, Tradesmen, Farmers, and Common-People...
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  • its constitutionality and economic sense, notably in Jonathan Swift's Drapier's Letters. The coinage was recalled and exported to the colonies of British...
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    South Wall (1700s) and Bull Wall (1820s) Dublin election riot (1713) Drapier's Letters (1724-5) Linenhall (1728-1916) Hell Fire Club (1735-1741) Premiere...
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    South Wall (1700s) and Bull Wall (1820s) Dublin election riot (1713) Drapier's Letters (1724-5) Linenhall (1728-1916) Hell Fire Club (1735-1741) Premiere...
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    opposition to Wood's halfpence and to counteract the effect of Swift's Drapier's Letters. Carteret had a strong personal liking for Swift, who was also...
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    Against Abolishing Christianity (1708) The Conduct of the Allies (1711) Drapier's Letters (1724/25) Directions to Servants (published 1745) Miscellany Isaac...
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    to secretly aid in the controversy over Wood's Halfpence and support Drapier's Letters behind the scenes and cause harm to Walpole's power.[full citation...
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    South Wall (1700s) and Bull Wall (1820s) Dublin election riot (1713) Drapier's Letters (1724-5) Linenhall (1728-1916) Hell Fire Club (1735-1741) Premiere...
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    War. 1722–1725: Controversy over William Wood's halfpence leads to the Drapier's Letters and begins the Irish economic independence from England movement...
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    South Wall (1700s) and Bull Wall (1820s) Dublin election riot (1713) Drapier's Letters (1724-5) Linenhall (1728-1916) Hell Fire Club (1735-1741) Premiere...
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  • South Wall (1700s) and Bull Wall (1820s) Dublin election riot (1713) Drapier's Letters (1724-5) Linenhall (1728-1916) Hell Fire Club (1735-1741) Premiere...
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