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Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, on 30 November 1667,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], unfortunately his father died before he was born. The facts about Swift's early life are quite hazy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it is believed that his mother moved to England, leaving Jonathan in the care of his father's brother Godwin. Swift studied at Kilkenny College (1674-1682) and Trinity College Dublin (1682-1689).
The political upheavals surrounding the Glorious Revolution forced him to depart Ireland, his mother gained him a position as secretary to the English diplomat, Sir William Temple. It was during this time that he met Esther Johnson, then aged eight,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a fatherless daughter of one of the household's servants. Swift became a tutor and mentor to the young girl, nicknaming her Stella,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they were to maintain a close but ambiguous relationship for the rest of their lives. He left the employment of Sir William Temple in 1690 to become an ordained priest in the Anglican Church. He was appointed to a parish located near Carrick Fergus, Co. Antrim, however he soon became disillusioned with the isolation and he returned to work for Sir William Temple.
He was employed in assisting Temple in editing his memoirs and correspondence, Swift wrote his The Battle of the Books at this time, a satire written in response to critics of Temple's stance on the importance of ancient over modern literature. In 1700 Swift became Chaplain to Lord Berkeley, he became heavily involved in Dublin society and politics and was a vociferous critic of the English administration in Ireland. In 1710 he joined the Tories and published the first of many political pamphlets which was entitled The Conduct of Allies. In 1713 he was appointed as Dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin, he began to pen pamphlets in support of Irish causes, some of these were to become his most famed works - Proposal for Universal Use of Irish Manufacture (1720),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Drapier's Letters (1724) and A Modest Proposal (1729). It was at this time too that he began to write what would become the world famous Gulliver's Travellers. It was first published in 1726, written under a pseudonym it was to become an immediate best-seller.