THE LEGACY OF THE CONFLICT: MR LEWIS’S MODEST PROPOSAL

Christopher Stanley, Litigation Consultant, KRW LAW LLP, Belfast[1] In 1729, Jonathan Swift published his Juvenalian satirical essay “A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for making them Beneficial to the Publick”. As readers of Village know Swift’s essay suggests that the impoverished … Continue reading THE LEGACY OF THE CONFLICT: MR LEWIS’S MODEST PROPOSAL