30. Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

Fraud detected, or, The Hibernian patriot : containing all the drapier's letters to the people of Ireland, on Wood's coinage, &c. ... : to which are added, Prometheus, a poem : also a new poem to the drapier : and the songs sung at the Drapier's Club in Truck Street, Dublin. (Dublin : Re-printed and sold by George Faulkner, 1725)

Swift was born in Ireland and, although he would dearly have wished preferment in England, was compelled to spend most of his career as Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin. His popularity with the Irish people rested largely on the success of his campaign against "Wood’s half-pence" carried on in his Drapier’s Letters. These were five pamphlets published in 1724 by Swift in the person of an Irish linen draper as opposed to the British hardwareman who was trying to flood Ireland with halfpennies worth less than their face value and so debase Irish trade.