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12 celebrated Irish figures including actors, musicians, writers, athletes, and cultural stars across Irish history.

Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swift

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Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift published Gulliver's Travels in 1726, a novel that has never been out of print. He wrote the scathing social commentary A Modest Proposal 1729 and served as Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. Swift is the foremost prose satirist in English, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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1660 1960