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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kanter, Douglas (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Walsh, Patrick (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance,
• Subjects: Finance-History.; Economic policy.; Accounting.; Financial History.; Economic Policy.; Financial Accounting.

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 an...

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.