The full title of Swift's flyer is "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick" The tract is an amusingly imagined endeavor to "discover a reasonable, shoddy, and simple Method" find out a fair, cheap, and easy Method" for converting the starving children of Ireland into "sound and useful members of the Commonwealth."
Across the nation poor youngsters, overwhelmingly Catholics, are living in filthiness in light of the fact that their families are too poor to even think about keeping them encouraged and dressed.
Swift's Modest Proposal was a satirical (comical) essay written in 1729 and did not make any reference to the Jewish Roman war which took place from 66 AD to 73 AD.
