Lawrence Stern - Is He an Irish Writer?

Lawrence stern was born in clanmell, but his parents were from england. His writing was radically sympathetic towards t people of ireland and massively critical of british policy. He wrote a modest proposal that poor irish people who are starving should sell their babies for money to rich people who could then eat the babies as a delicacy. We definitely considerd jonathan swift to be an irish writer. But lawrence stern, i don't he's just kind of considered it a british writer, even though he was born in clansmell.