Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Drapiers_Letters> ?p ?o }
- Drapiers_Letters abstract "Drapier's Letters is the collective name for a series of seven pamphlets written between 1724 and 1725 by the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Jonathan Swift, to arouse public opinion in Ireland against the imposition of a privately minted copper coinage that Swift believed to be of inferior quality. William Wood was granted letters patent to mint the coin, and Swift saw the licensing of the patent as corrupt. In response, Swift represented Ireland as constitutionally and financially independent of Britain in the Drapier's Letters. Since the subject was politically sensitive, Swift wrote under the pseudonym M. B., Drapier, to hide from retaliation.Although the letters were condemned by the Irish government, with prompting from the British government, they were still able to inspire popular sentiment against Wood and his patent. The popular sentiment turned into a nationwide boycott, which forced the patent to be withdrawn; Swift was later honoured for this service to the people of Ireland. Many Irish people recognised Swift as a hero for his defiance of British control over the Irish nation. Beyond being a hero, many critics have seen Swift, through the persona of the Drapier, as the first to organise a "more universal Irish community", although it is disputed as to who constitutes that community. Regardless of whom Swift is actually appealing to or what he may or may not have done, the nickname provided by Archbishop King, "Our Irish Copper-Farthen Dean", and his connection to ending the controversy stuck.The first complete collection of the Drapier's Letters appeared in the 1734 George Faulkner edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift along with an allegorical frontispiece offering praise and thanks from the Irish people. Today, the Drapier's Letters are an important part of Swift's political writings, along with Gulliver's Travels (1726), A Tale of a Tub (1704), and A Modest Proposal (1729).".
- Drapiers_Letters thumbnail Swift_works.png?width=300.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageExternalLink search.php?query=Drapier%27s%20Letters.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageID "1901773".
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageLength "54014".
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageOutDegree "90".
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageRevisionID "675283441".
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink A_Modest_Proposal.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink A_Tale_of_a_Tub.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Absentee_landlord.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Aeneid.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Alan_Brodrick,_1st_Viscount_Midleton.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Allegory.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Archbishop_King.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Bounty_(reward).
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink British_Whig_Party.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink British_shilling_coin.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Category:1724_books.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Category:1725_books.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Category:British_non-fiction_literature.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Category:Essays_by_Jonathan_Swift.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Category:Independence_movements.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Category:Irish_constitutional_law.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Category:Irish_non-fiction_literature.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Category:Numismatics.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Category:Pamphlets.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Church_of_Ireland.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink David.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Dean_(Christianity).
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Dean_(religion).
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Debasement.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Declaratory_Act_1719.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Dependency_of_Ireland_on_Great_Britain_Act_1719.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Draper.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Dublin.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Ehrengard_Melusine_von_der_Schulenburg,_Duchess_of_Kendal_and_Munster.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink English_Civil_War.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink English_Dissenters.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Evangelicalism.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink George_Faulkner.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink George_I_of_Great_Britain.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Goliath.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Greshams_law.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Gullivers_Travels.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Henry_Boyle,_1st_Earl_of_Shannon.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Her_Majestys_Most_Honourable_Privy_Council.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Internet_Archive.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Isaac_Newton.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink John_Carteret,_2nd_Earl_Granville.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink John_Locke.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Jonathan_Swift.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Last_Judgment.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Letters_patent.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Lord_Chief_Justice_of_Ireland.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Massachusetts.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Melusine_von_der_Schulenburg,_Duchess_of_Kendal.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Motte_v_Faulkner.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Office_of_the_Revenue_Commissioners.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Pamphlet.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Parliament_of_Ireland.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Penny_(British_pre-decimal_coin).
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Poynings_Law.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Privy_Council_of_Ireland.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Prophet.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Protestant_Ascendancy.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Psalm_109.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Revenue_Commissioners.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Walpole.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Secretary_of_State_(United_Kingdom).
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Secretary_of_State_for_the_Southern_Department.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Sermons_of_Dean_Swift.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Sermons_of_Jonathan_Swift.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Shilling_(British_coin).
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Sirach.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink St._Patricks_Cathedral,_Dublin.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink St_Patricks_Cathedral,_Dublin.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Statute_of_Anne.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Tory.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Treason.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Trial_of_the_Pyx.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Two_Treatises_of_Government.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Two_Treatises_on_Government.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Virgil.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Walter_Scott.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Whig_(British_political_faction).
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Whigs_(British_political_party).
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink William_Conolly.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink William_King_(bishop).
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink William_Molyneux.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink William_Whitshed.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink William_Wood_(Mintmaster).
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink William_Wood_(ironmaster).
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink Williamite_War_in_Ireland.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink File:Drapiers_Letter_5.JPG.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink File:Jervas-JonathanSwift.jpg.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink File:SwiftLetterHarding.png.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink File:SwiftLetterObservations.png.
- Drapiers_Letters wikiPageWikiLink File:SwiftLetterPeopleIreland.png.