The following pieces, which were first printed by Walter Scott in his 1824 edition of Swift's Works, cannot be dated with any certainty. Because they deal satirically with the practices of spoken language, they are often associated with his Polite Conversation (pub. 1738, though written over a period of more than two decades). The Dialogue and Irish Eloquence take as their object of ridicule the non-standard English of the "planters": those settlers, largely soldiers and adventurers, who "planted" a colony in Ireland out of lands confiscated from the native Catholics as a result of the Cromwellian campaign in Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century. Political, cultural, and class factors would have made this group a particularly fitting target of Swift's satire. We might keep in mind, however, that counterbalancing Swift's censoriousness at violations of linguistic norms was a fascination with the varieties of the spoken and written word—a delight in linguistic diversity evident in his own use of dialectal and colloquial expressions and jeux d'esprit composed in Anglo-Latin and Hiberno-English. Full background and contexts for the following pieces are provided in the edition by Alan Bliss; most word definitions can be found in Dolan's Dictionary of Hiberno-English (see "Further Reading"). Copytext: Huntington Library Manuscripts HM 14342 and HM 14343. Care has been taken to remain as faithful to the MSS as possible while yet providing a readable text.KeywordsReadable TextWord DefinitionRefuse CoalLinguistic NormPolite ConversationThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.