a modest proposal by jonathan swift delphi classics

David’s process involves painstakingly etching his chosen images into stone before printing a technique that produces haunting results. Jamie is always keen to work with other artists, and in this instance he approached David O’Kane to commission a series of lithographs to accompany the text. The work of typographer and designer Jamie Murphy of the Salvage Press I knew they would have to be involved, and in one way this project was designed to mark their births.'

My daughter Olivia was born in 2016, presenting signs of the same genetic condition as my son. The text seemed relevant and current – are the Irish not still in a shocking financial condition? Are we not still being plundered by absentee landlords? Are our children not about to incur the fallout from a previous generation's mistakes? I started to think about reprinting the text. I had heard of A Modest Proposal years before but hadn't read it until this period. We spent the next two years in and out of hospital. 'He was worryingly small at birth and was extremely slow to gain weight.

'In 2014 my son Joshua was born,' said Jamie. In order to get a feel for the typeface, Jamie used it to publish four pamphlets, each containing a Swift poem. This was the decade in which Jonathan Swift wrote much of his satirical work, including A Modest Proposal, that still-shocking pamphlet that suggests the eating of infants as a solution to Irish poverty. In 2014, typographer and designer Jamie Murphy of the Salvage Press came into possession of a typeface called Caslon, which had its origins in the 1720s.

A modest proposal by jonathan swift delphi classics