Curated by Dr Andrew Carpenter, MRIA and the since retired Librarian, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, this Swift 350 exhibition explored the writings of Jonathan Swift using the Academy collections of pamphlets, broadsides and Swift’s manuscript accounts book. Including loan items, the accompanying display demonstrated Swift’s prodigious output in a variety of formats from illustrated editions of Gulliver’s Travels and the Drapier’s Letters to the Modest proposal and much more.

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Wednesday 21 June

‘Swift and books’ – Andrew Carpenter, MRIA

 

Wednesday 12 July

‘Swift’s Dublin’ – David Dickson, MRIA

 

Wednesday 19 July

‘Women in the writings of Jonathan Swift’ – Aileen Douglas