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BEP(F.738.014
24 Apr 1738:11 (141)
Dublin, Dec. 3. Last Wednesday being the anniversary of the
birth-day of the worthy patriot the Rev. Dr. Swift, Dean of
St. Patrick's, the same was observ'd with the utmost
expressions of joy and gratitude by all the people in and
about the liberties of St. Patrick, and in most parts of
this city and suburbs. The bells rang as usual on the most
solemn occasions, 19 pattareroes fir'd several rounds, four
large bonfires were upon the steeple, and the windows
illuminated. There were many excellent poems presented to
him on the happy occasion of his birth; and there was a very
large bonfire in St. Warburghs Street, opposite to Hoy's
alley, where this great and good man was born, and not in
England, as hath been falsely mad maliciously reported, to
deprive this Kingdom of the honour of producing the greatest
and most universal genius of the world.
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