Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662-2016

by Douglas Kanter (Editor), Patrick Walsh (Editor)

Overview

This book examines the politics of taxation in Ireland between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. Combining political, economic, and policy history, it contributes to a growing interdisciplinary literature on public finance, while also providing context for the ongoing debate on taxation and austerity in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland illuminates a neglected aspect of Irish history, and will be of interest to scholars, policymakers, and members of the public who wish to understand a subject that is central to the modern Irish experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030043094
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	01/10/2019
Series:	Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Douglas Kanter is associate professor of modern British, Irish, and British imperial history at Florida Atlantic University, USA. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is the author of The Making of British Unionism, 1740-1848: Politics, Government and the Anglo-Irish Constitutional Relationship (2009).

Patrick Walsh is assistant professor of eighteenth-century Irish history at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His publications include The South Sea Bubble and Ireland: Money, Banking and Investment, 1690-1721 (Woodbridge, 2014) and with Aaron Graham The British and Irish Fiscal-Military States, 1660-1783 (London, 2016).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction; Douglas Kanter and Patrick Walsh.- Chapter 2. Ireland, Mercantilism, and the Navigation Acts, 1660–1686; James Guilfoyle.- Chapter 3. Politics, Parliament, Patriot Opinion, and the Irish National Debt in the Age of Jonathan Swift; Charles Ivar McGrath.- Chapter 4. Patterns of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century Ireland; Patrick Walsh.- Chapter 5. Finance and Politics in Ireland, 1801–17; Trevor McCavery.- Chapter 6. That ‘Absurd Phantom called Free Trade’: The Politics of Protection in Ireland, c. 1829–52; Andrew Shields.- Chapter 7. Resistance to the Collection of Rates under the Poor Law, 1842–44; Mel Cousins.- Chapter 8. Taxation and the Economics of Nationalism in 1840s Ireland; Charles Read.- Chapter 9. The Campaign against Over-Taxation, 1863–65: A Reappraisal; Douglas Kanter.- Chapter 10. Tides of Change and Changing Sides: The Collection of Rates in the Irish War of Independence, 1919–21; Robin Adams.- Chapter 11. Taxation and the Revolutionary Inheritance: Tax Proposals, Legitimacy, and the Irish Free State, 1922–32; Jason Knirck.- Chapter 12. The Economic War and the Pamphlet War; Aidan Beatty.- Chapter 13. The Irish Tax State and Historical Legacies: Slowly Converging Capacity, Persistent Unwillingness to Pay; Michelle D’Arcy and Marina Nistotskaya.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This is an important and agenda-setting collection on a significant and long-neglected subject. From the Navigation Acts to the tax marches of the 1970s, the contributions to this ambitious and timely volume attest to the centrality of the ability to tax to the operational capacity of the state, and to the resistance and resentment it inevitably provoked.” (James Kelly, Cregan Professor of History, Dublin City University, Ireland)

“Kanter, Walsh, and their colleagues have produced a landmark collection of essays on both the high politics of Irish taxation and the popular reaction to it since the seventeenth century. This work gives convincing evidence for their contention that fiscal policy has affected not only the economy but also the state, national identity, and civic morality.” (James H. Murphy, Director of Irish Studies, Boston College, USA)

Editorial Reviews

This is an excellent and important book. Kanter and Walsh do an able job as both writers and editors, and ensure that several significant themes are capably developed across multiple essays. As a result, this volume makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of taxation in Ireland and invites further research.” (Karen Sonnelitter, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Vol. 34, 2019)

“The book is very well compiled, the panel of contributors well chosen and it reads coherently—aided by the chronological order of studies. … This provides us with a very clear and detailed illustration of the maxim in the introduction that ‘taxation is first and foremost a political issue’, and that the formulation and implementation of taxation initiatives are determined politically rather than forideological or philosophical reasons.” (Ciarán Mac an Bhaird, Studia Hibernica, Vol. 45, 2019)

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