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☆☆☆☆☆English landlords charging Irish households expensive rent
Children would become valuable property.
Harvesting poor infants will reduce the number of Papists in the country.
The narrator's idea is ridiculous and immodest, not humble and acceptable.
unemployment
Social-class inequality
Because they contained controversial political views
Because they could have gotten him in trouble with the government
upper-class families of ireland - apex
It criticizes British attitudes toward poverty in Ireland, but in an indirect way. <APEX>
He provides practical ideas for recipes on cooking children in the kitchen.
He creates a distinction between what he says and what he really means.
The satirist is suggesting a ridiculous solution to make his point, while the narrator is suggesting a practical solution to the problem.
Parents
It criticizes British attitudes toward poverty in Ireland, but in an indirect way.
