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In the Dean’s provocation, what is meant by The very Irish shall not come

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Answer: She tells him to go away, he demands his money back which of course she won't give. He threatens to describe her dressing room in such a way that “the very Irish shall not come” (the joke is, the Irish were supposed to be coarse, but also Swift was an Irishman)

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