Borrowings from Jonathan Swift in Charles Macklin's The True-Born Irishman

Charles Macklin's farce The Trueborn Irishman (1761) revolves around a marriage in crisis and, more broadly, the political relationship between Ireland and England. Prior to the play's action, the wife of Murrogh O'Dogherty, the proud Irishman referred to in the title, has been to London (she has attended the coronation of George III) and she has returned to Dublin with upstart aspirations and a mania for all things English: 'the Irish Fine Lady's delirium, or the London vertigo.