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Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016Taxation and the Economics of Nationalism in 1840s Ireland

Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016: Taxation and the Economics of Nationalism... [In terms of popular protest, the years of the Irish Famine decade are known to many scholars as ‘conspicuous for their tranquillity rather than their turbulence’. In contrast, recent research has uncovered how food shortages provoked riots at the time. There has been less scholarly interest, however, in how tax changes by the British government provoked other types of popular protest in Ireland. This chapter uncovers two important examples of this phenomenon. The first is how the tariff-cutting budget of 1842 fuelled popular support for Daniel O’Connell’s campaign to repeal the Act of Union. The second is how excessive property taxation for poor relief resulted in middle-class emigration during the Famine. Both outcomes drove popular support for Irish nationalism.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016Taxation and the Economics of Nationalism in 1840s Ireland

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance Book Series
Editors: Kanter, Douglas; Walsh, Patrick
Read, Charles
Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016 — Jan 11, 2019
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-04308-7
Pages
199 –225
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-04309-4_8
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Abstract

[In terms of popular protest, the years of the Irish Famine decade are known to many scholars as ‘conspicuous for their tranquillity rather than their turbulence’. In contrast, recent research has uncovered how food shortages provoked riots at the time. There has been less scholarly interest, however, in how tax changes by the British government provoked other types of popular protest in Ireland. This chapter uncovers two important examples of this phenomenon. The first is how the tariff-cutting budget of 1842 fuelled popular support for Daniel O’Connell’s campaign to repeal the Act of Union. The second is how excessive property taxation for poor relief resulted in middle-class emigration during the Famine. Both outcomes drove popular support for Irish nationalism.]

Published: Jan 11, 2019

Keywords: Great Famine; Food riots; Property taxation; Tariffs; Daniel O’Connell; Emigration

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