Johnathon Swift believes that the poverty, famine, and overpopulation in Ireland is all because of the babies who are being born into families that truly are not financially able to take care of themselves, or a family. He believes all of these extra babies,that can't even be well-cared for, are causing overpopulation, which ultimately leads the nation to famine and poverty. Swift says,"that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas! too frequent among us!" This leads me to believe that he identifies with the Irish; in this context he says "us". I think he is trying to fix the problems within his own social and societal group.
The potato famine was pretty much caused by mainly two reasons. The potato famine came about because a disease spread througout the Irish's most important and main crop, the potato.All of the potatos went bad. Due to the English opression, it was impossible to get food any other way. The English were on the waters so the Irish could not fish. The Irish had no way of getting food; some of the poor folk were so desperate for food that they ate the rotten potatos just because their stomach hurt so bad from lack of food. These same people got sick and died.
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