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JONATHAN SWIFT

Jonathan Swift was an Irish writer. He was born in 1667 in Dublin and died in 1745. The son of a clergyman, he was educated at Kilkenny Grammar School and Dublin University. Secretary to Sir William Temple from 1689 until 1692 he went on to Oxford in 1692 and took his MA degree. In 1695 he was ordained as a priest and worked for a while at Kilroot, Belfast before returning to Moor Park. He wrote a number of biting satires, including his most famous work Gulliver's Travels which was an attack on the English society of the time.
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