Living in a time of mistreatment of Irish citizens by the British monarchy led the authors to protest the circumstances in the only way they knew how, with their words. Jonathan Swift was one such author who attacked the wrongs committed by England towards Ireland using his wit and satire. Swift once said, “We have enough religion to make us hate each other, but not enough to make us love each other” (Baker). Therefore, the crux of the problem with Ireland and England was the desire of one to maintain its religious freedom while the other wished to replace one religion with its own. It is that fervor for religious control that led England to use every method at its disposal to force the Irish to convert from Catholicism to Anglicanism. To achieve this the English monarchy and parliament passed laws that prevented Irish citizens from earning a living and attempted to destroy the Irish economy with worthless coins. If the Irish citizens had passively stood by and allowed this to happen, the English plan might have succeeded. However, writers like Jonathan Swift fought with written words to mobilize a nation against tyranny. To fully understand the reasons why Ireland was treated so atrociously by England it is necessary to delve into the history of the two nations. In 1532 Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife, unable to produce a male heir, and marry another. Unable to receive papal approval for divorce from Rome, Henry VIII broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and formed the Anglican Church of England and Protestantism was established (Baker). Henry VIII was granted a divorce as he controlled the church, was allowed to marry another and heirs were born. Henry VIII, having formed his own church and... center of paper......dBaker, Lyman A. "Conditions in Early Eighteenth-Century Ireland." March 17, 2012. KSU. .Bromberg, Howard. "A modest proposal." Masterplots, Fourth Edition (2010) 2012 March 30: 1-3. Literary reference center. Web.Fabricant, Carole. "Speaking for the Irish Nation: the Drapier, the Bishop and the Problems of Colonial Representation". ELH (1999): 337-332. http://www.jstor.org.muncie.libproxy. ivytech.edu/stable/30032076."Ireland." March 21, 2012. New World Encyclopedia.."Jonathan Swift." March 17, 2012. Encyclopedia of World Biography..Lawall, Sarah. "The Norton Anthology of World Literature 1650-1800." Quick, Jonathan. A modest proposal. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002. 483. Book.