Overview
- First study to examine the politics of taxation in Ireland from the seventeenth through to the twenty-first centuries
- Integrates political history, economic history, and policy history
- Contributes to the growing interdisciplinary literature on fiscal policy and taxation
- Provides a historical context for the ongoing debate on taxation and austerity in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance (PSHF)
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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.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016
Editors: Douglas Kanter, Patrick Walsh
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04309-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04308-7Published: 22 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04309-4Published: 10 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-5164
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5172
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 367
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Financial History, Economic Policy, Financial Accounting