  ==Inaccuracies?==  The article refers to the opinions of two commentators, Donald C Baker and Louis A Landa. I’ve no idea who they are or what knowledge they have of Irish society in the 1720s but either their views are misreported or they were misled. The phrases in question are “English mistreatment of the Irish poor” and “England was denying Irish citizens their natural rights”.   While Swift rightly aims some of his satire at the government of Great Britain (not England, which had ceased to have overall responsibility for Ireland since union with Scotland in 1707), many of the evils he analyses were the responsibility of the government and people of Ireland. To blame all Ireland’s woes on the British, without whom the island would have been an earthly paradise, is lazy and inaccurate.    