Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1667. He was raised primarily by his influential uncle, Godwin Swift, who sent the boy to Kilkenny College. In 1682, Swift attended Trinity College, Dublin, where he received his B.A. Swift later received his M.A. at Oxford, after which he became an ordained priest in the Established Church of Ireland. Swift began publishing short satires and political pamphlets, gaining a reputation as a writer. He earned the status of an Irish patriot with pamphlets such as Proposal for Universal Use of Irish Manufacture (1720), Drapier’s Letters (1724), and A Modest Proposal (1729). However, Swift would be best remembered for his novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726).