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A Modest Proposal for Maximizing the Usefulness of the Poor Children of Ireland and for Providing a Means to Regulate the Economy
A Modest Proposal for Feeding the Hungry, Clothing the Needy, Sheltering the Homeless, and Enriching the Poor People of Ireland
A Modest Proposal for Improving the Living Standards in Ireland and for Relieving the Poor People in Ireland of Their Unwanted Children
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public
Become thieves
Sell themselves to the Barbadoes
Fight for the Pretender in Spain
Become factory workers
Two years
One year
Four years
Six months
100,000
10,000
120,000
5,000
Spanish
American
Italian
English
Nine months after Christmas
Nine months after the first day of autumn
Nine months after the first day of spring
Nine months after Lent
One hundred shillings
Ten shillings
Twenty shillings
Three shillings
It would be too difficult to implement if it was run by the government.
It would create a more homogenous Ireland.
It was a little bordering on cruelty.
It would be looked down upon in other countries.
People will not live in fear of being robbed.
The price of other foods in Ireland will go down.
The food will bring a great custom to taverns in Ireland.
Sanitation in Ireland will be improved.
The people of Ireland could not afford the shipping costs.
The flesh is too tender to admit a long continuance of salt.
The smell of the food would be repulsive over a long journey.
The people of Ireland did not want other nation’s citizens eating their children.
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