Author:Jonathan Swift/Political Works

Political Works

Political Essays

• Advice to the Freemen of Dublin in the Choice of a Member of Parliament (1733)
• Answer of William Pulteney to Sir Robert Walpole (1730)
• An Answer to a Paper called a Memorial of the Poor Inhabitants, Tradesmen, and Labourers of Ireland (1728)
• Answer to Several Letters from Unknown Persons (1729)
• An Answer to Several Letters Sent Me from Unknown Hands (1729)
• An Answer to the Craftsman (1730)
• The Answer to the Injured Lady (c. 1720-1735)
• The Conduct of the Allies (1713)
• An Appendix to the Conduct of the Allies (1713)
• Considerations about Maintaining the Poor (c. 1699-1736)
• Considerations on the Choice of a Recorder (1733)
• The Dean's Speech to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen (1737)
• A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome (1701)
• An Essay on English Bubbles (1720)
• An Essay on National Rewards (1713)
• The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen (1758)
• The Importance of the Guardian Considered in a Second Letter to the Bailiff of Stockbridge (1713)
• An Inquiry into the Behaviour of the Queen's Last Ministry (1715)
• The Last Speech of Ebenezer Elliston (1722)
• Memoirs relating to the Change in the Queen's Ministry in the Year 1710 (1710)
• A Modest Inquiry into the Reasons of the Joy (1714)
• A New Journey to Paris (1711)
• No One Is Obliged by his Principles as a Whig to Oppose the Queen (1712)
• Of Public Absurdities in England (1726)
• Preamble to Mr. Harley's Patent (1711)
• A Pretended Letter of Thanks from Lord Wharton to the Bishop of St. Asaph (1712)
• The Publick Spirit of the Whigs (1714)
• Reasons against the Bill for settling the Tithe of Hemp, &c. by a Modus (1726)
• Remarks Upon a Letter to the Seven Lords of the Committee Appointed to Examine Gregg (1711)
• The Sentiments of a Church of England Man with Respect to Religion and Government (1708)
• Some Advice to the Members of the October Club (1712)
• Some Considerations upon the Consequences hoped and feared from the Death of the Queen (1714)
• Some Free Thoughts upon the Present State of Affairs (1714)
• Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty between her Majesty and the States-general (1712)
• The Story of the Injured Lady (c. 1720-1735)
• A Supposed Letter from the Pretender to a Whig Lord (1712)
• The Swearer's Bank (1720)
• Thoughts concerning the Repeal of the Test (1716)
• A Vindication of Lord Carteret (1730)

Political Essays About Ireland

• An Examination of Certain Abuses in the City of Dublin (1732)
• The Humble Petition of the Footmen in Dublin (1732)
• A Letter on Mr. Maculla's Project about Halfpence (1729)
• A Letter to a Member of Parliament in Ireland, upon choosing a Speaker (1708)
• A Letter to the Archbishop of Dublin Concerning the Weavers (c. 1720-1735)
• Maxims Controlled in Ireland (c. 1720-1735)
• A Modest Proposal (1729)
• Observations Occasioned By Reading a Paper (c. 1720-1740)
• On Barbarous Denominations in Ireland (c. 1715-1736)
• A Proposal For Giving Badges to the Beggars (1737)
• A Proposal for Paying the National Debt (1732)
• A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture (1720)
• A Proposal that the Ladies Wear Irish Manufactures (1729)
• Reasons Humbly Offered to the Parliament of Ireland For Repealing the Sacramental Test in Favour of the Catholicks (1732)
• A Short View of the State of Ireland (1727)
• Upon Giving Badges to the Poor (1726)

The Drapier’s Letters

• The Drapier’s Letters 1 (1724)
• The Drapier’s Letters 2 (1724)
• The Drapier’s Letters 3 (1724)
• The Drapier’s Letters 4 (1724)
• Seasonable Advice Concerning the Bill Against the Printer of the Drapier's Fourth Letter (1724)
• Resolutions of the House of Commons in England 1680 (1680)
• The Presentment of the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Dublin (1724)
• The Drapier’s Letters 5 (1724)
• The Drapier’s Letters 6 (1724)
• The Drapier’s Letters 7 (1724)
• A Full and True Account of the Solemn Procession at the Execution of William Wood (1724)