Jonathan Swift Detail of a portrait of Jonathan Swift directed by Charles Jervas (1718). Other key data names MB Draper, Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff Activities priest, writer, pamphleteer Born November 30, 1667 Dublin (Ireland) Death October 19, 1745 (77 years) Dublin (Ireland) Writing language English major works Letters from the clothier, (1724) Gulliver's Travels (1726) Modest Proposal (1729) change Jonathan Swift, born November 30, 1667 in Dublin, Ireland, and died October 19, 1745 in the same city is a writer, satirist, essayist, pamphleteer Anglo-Irish politics. [1] He is also a p...