Literary Triumph in Ireland and England

Abstract

During Swift’s rambles in the summer of 1723, an economic controversy had emerged in Dublin which was soon to engage him as a supreme pamphleteer in the guise of a Dublin Drapier. This was the issue of Wood’s halfpence, which began as a legislative dispute between Dublin and London over money, and ended with Swift asserting Ireland’s right to legislative independence, while exposing the injustice and corruption of the English administration.