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From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Date: 20000809
Author:Hill, Ian

Dean Jonathan Swift courted Jane Waring of Waring Street, neglected his parishioners at Kilroot, wrote scatological verses to the lady of Gosford Castle and proposed boiling babies up for food as a solution to the Irish question.

He was also the author of Gulliver's Travels, ...

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