Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662-2016, 1st ed. 2019 Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance Series

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.

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).

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