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Irish Economic and Social History
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.139

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ISSN (Print) 0332-4893 - ISSN (Online) 2050-4918
Published by Sage Publications

[1174 journals]

‘A Man Who Has Both Arms’: Arthur Griffith, the Economy and the
Anglo-Irish Treaty Agreement 1921
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  Authors: Colum Kenny
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Ahead of Print.
  Arthur Griffith founded Sinn Féin. From 1899 onwards, through detailed articles in his weekly papers and otherwise, he strongly advocated the economic development of Ireland and the adoption of qualified protectionism to achieve it. As minister for foreign affairs in the revolutionary government of Ireland in 1921, he chaired the Irish delegation that negotiated with Lloyd George's government articles of agreement for an Anglo-Irish Treaty. In January 1922 he was elected president of Dáil Éireann, the revolutionary Irish parliament, but died suddenly in August 1922 before the new Irish Free State formally came into existence. This essay underlines the importance that he attached to economic affairs, not least in making fiscal autonomy a central ambition of his negotiations with the British. The author concludes that Griffith was far-sighted, and calls for a discrete and empathetic study of his economic ideas.
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2022-04-13T11:27:56Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893221093561
Ireland and the Marshall Plan: E.C.A.'s Manoeuvring to Promote Dollar
Tourism
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  Authors: Anne Groutel
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Ahead of Print.
  When the Economic Cooperation Administration (E.C.A.), the American agency in charge of the implementation of the Marshall Plan, was faced with an increasing balance of payments deficit in Ireland, it focused on the development of dollar tourism to bridge it. But at the beginning of the 1950s, tourism development had become an extremely sensitive topic in Irish political and government circles as well as in public opinion. Thus, from the start, the ECA's efforts were bound to meet some opposition even though the American agency had the active support of the Minister of External Affairs of the First Inter-Party Government (1948–1951). Based on unpublished American archive documents, this paper reveals the backdoor tactics used by the E.C.A. mission in Ireland to circumvent the resistance of part of the Irish government. The E.C.A.'s ruses did not succeed. However, by facilitating the exposure of some forward-looking hoteliers to the ‘American way’, familiarisation trips to the U.S. organised under the aegis of the Marshall Plan helped set a dynamic in motion. This exposure was instrumental in the development of several innovations in Irish tourism and the economic sector which attracted the attention of powerful Irish-American businessmen. The latter were subsequently to collaborate closely with the Irish government to attract strategic American investments to the country from the 1960s onwards.
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2022-03-31T05:48:30Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893221080610
The Irish Receipt Roll of 1301–2: Data Science and Medieval
Exchequer Practice
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  Authors: Brendan Smith, Mike Jones
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Ahead of Print.
  The English conquest and colonisation of Ireland, which began in the years around 1170 was accompanied by the introduction of an administrative system based on English models. From the point of view of the crown, perhaps the most important of the new offices of government that it established was the exchequer, which coordinated the financial exploitation of its Irish lordship. The exchequer generated a vast quantity of written documents recording its operations. This paper subjects one such document, detailing the sums received at the exchequer for the year 1301–2, to data science techniques in order to gain added insight into the routine functioning of the financial arm of English government in its oldest colony. It thereby also reveals previously unrecognised patterns in the nature of English power in Ireland. The purpose of the paper is not to assess the state of Irish finances in the early fourteenth century, but rather to argue that a deep reading of a single document produced by an elaborate bureaucratic system, combined with data science visualizations, can help to generate new research questions in relation to a substantial body of financial records which are soon to become more widely available to both scholars and the general public.
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2022-01-24T12:43:06Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211067419
Politics as Usual: Charles Edward Trevelyan and the Irish and Scottish
Fisheries Before and During the Great Famine
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  Authors: John Leazer
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Ahead of Print.
  Since the Great Irish Famine a debate has raged concerning the culpability of the British government, especially in the person of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Charles Edward Trevelyan, and its failure to come to the aid of the starving Irish. On one end of the debate, Trevelyan is accused of severe prejudice against the Irish, with some ultra-nationalists even accusing him of genocide. On the other end, Trevelyan is viewed simply as an ideologue intent on enforcing the Whig view of laissez-faire economics. However, a study of government involvement in the Irish and Scottish Fishing industries shows that the political situation before and during the Famine was more complex than the traditional debate indicates. This paper argues that the government’s treatment of the Irish fisheries, which were in a dismal state compared to the Scots, had more to do with political realities that Trevelyan inherited and could not ignore.
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2022-01-17T12:45:40Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211049539
‘Oh, Oh Rodeo!!’: American Cowboys and Post-Independence
Ireland
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  Authors: Conor Heffernan
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Ahead of Print.
  In 1924 Tex Austin, an American showman, brought his world travelling Rodeo to Croke Park in Dublin. Coming at a time of significant social and political upheaval in Ireland, Austin's rodeo promised an entirely new kind of spectacle which was free from imperial or British connotations. Austin's rodeo, and cowboy paraphernalia in general, seemed largely immune from cultural suspicions despite the fact that few citizens knew what a rodeo actually entailed. The purpose of the present article is twofold. First it provides a detailed examination of Tex Austin's Dublin Rodeo, and a growing proliferation of cowboy culture in interwar Ireland. Second, it uses Austin's Rodeo and its aftermath, to discuss the rise of cowboy masculinities in Ireland. Done to highlight the multiplicity of masculine identities in the Free State, the article discusses the appeal of cowboy inspired masculinity in Ireland, as well as the mediums through which it passed. Such an identity was not all encompassing but it did exist, and was sustained by the entertainment and leisure industry. Its study reiterates the need for more work on the various pressures and influences brought to bear on Irish masculinity.
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2022-01-10T01:05:17Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211070241
On the Structure of Wealth-Holding in Pre-Famine Ireland
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  Authors: Neil Cummins, Cormac Ó Gráda
  Pages: 108 - 134
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 108-134, December 2021.
  Very little is known about wealth-holding and its distribution in Ireland in the past. Here we employ death duty register data to analyse and identify a sample of the top wealth-holders in Ireland between the early 1820s and late 1830s. We examine the sources of their wealth and its regional spread, and compare them with their British counterparts. We also discuss the share of Catholics and Quakers among top wealth-holders.
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-02-08T06:07:28Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0332489320984348
  Issue No: Vol. 48, No. 1 (2021)
The State’s Attitude and Response to the Threat Posed by Tobacco
Smuggling in Ireland 1780–1850
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  Authors: Seán M. Whitney
  Pages: 135 - 146
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 135-146, December 2021.
  Tobacco as one of the ‘old reliables’ has presented governments with a steady and lucrative revenue stream that continues to this day. The enormous difference between tobacco’s prime cost and that paid by the consumer is due to the imposition of government duties. This revenue was particularly threatened in the period in question by smugglers and their land-based accomplices who were attracted by the considerable profit to be made because of such a differential in price. The state response to this threat included largely ineffectual legislation and the expensive establishment of state agencies to combat this threat. This approach was maintained despite ongoing appeals from economic commentators and members of the tobacco trade for a reduction in duty which they felt would make it uneconomical for smuggling to continue.
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-08-04T09:21:52Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211034122
  Issue No: Vol. 48, No. 1 (2021)
Book Review: Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular
Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster by Guy Beiner
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  Authors: Andrew R. Holmes
  Pages: 147 - 149
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 147-149, December 2021.
  
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-12-02T02:56:29Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455
  Issue No: Vol. 48, No. 1 (2021)
Book Review: The Disparity of Sacrifice: Irish recruitment to the British
Armed Forces 1914–1918 by Timothy Bowman, William Butler and Michael
Wheatley
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  Authors: Fionnuala Walsh
  Pages: 149 - 151
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 149-151, December 2021.
  
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-12-02T02:55:00Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455a
  Issue No: Vol. 48, No. 1 (2021)
Book Review: Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison: A Political
History, 1750–1850 by Richard J. Butler
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  Authors: Brian Griffin
  Pages: 151 - 153
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 151-153, December 2021.
  
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-12-02T02:54:59Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455b
  Issue No: Vol. 48, No. 1 (2021)
Book Review: The Old English in Early Modern Ireland: the Palesmen and the
Nine Years’ War 1594–1603 by Ruth A. Canning
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  Authors: Brian Mac Cuarta SJ
  Pages: 153 - 155
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 153-155, December 2021.
  
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-12-02T02:54:59Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455c
  Issue No: Vol. 48, No. 1 (2021)
Book Review: The First Irish Cities: An Eighteenth-Century Transformation
by David Dickson
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  Authors: Toby Barnard
  Pages: 155 - 157
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 155-157, December 2021.
  
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-12-02T02:54:30Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455d
  Issue No: Vol. 48, No. 1 (2021)
Book Review: Hearthlands: A Memoir of the White City Housing Estate in
Belfast by Marianne Elliott
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  Authors: C. J. Woods
  Pages: 157 - 159
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 157-159, December 2021.
  
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-12-02T02:54:29Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455e
  Issue No: Vol. 48, No. 1 (2021)
Book Review: Ernest Blythe in Ulster: The Making of a Double Agent' by
David Fitzpatrick
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  Authors: Marie Coleman
  Pages: 159 - 160
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 159-160, December 2021.
  
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-12-02T02:54:28Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455f
  Issue No: Vol. 48, No. 1 (2021)
Book Review: Crime, Violence, and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century by
Kyle Hughes and Donald M. MacRaild (eds.)
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  Authors: Kerron Ó Luain
  Pages: 160 - 163
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 160-163, December 2021.
  
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-12-02T02:54:28Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455g
  Issue No: Vol. 48, No. 1 (2021)
Book Review: Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and its
Diaspora by Kyle Hughes and Donald M. MacRaild
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  Authors: Niall Whelehan
  Pages: 163 - 165
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 163-165, December 2021.
  
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-12-02T02:54:27Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455h
  Issue No: Vol. 48, No. 1 (2021)
Book Review: Protestant Nationalists in Ireland, 1900–1923 by Conor
Morrissey
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  Authors: Ian d’Alton
  Pages: 165 - 167
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 165-167, December 2021.
  
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-12-02T02:54:27Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455i
  Issue No: Vol. 48, No. 1 (2021)
Book Review: Women of the Country House in Ireland, 1860–1914 by
Maeve O’Riordan
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  Authors: Jennifer Redmond
  Pages: 167 - 169
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 167-169, December 2021.
  
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-12-02T02:54:26Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455j
  Issue No: Vol. 48, No. 1 (2021)
Book Review: Gaelic Ulster in the Middle Ages: History, Culture and
Society by Katharine Simms
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  Authors: Eamon Darcy
  Pages: 169 - 170
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 169-170, December 2021.
  
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-12-02T02:54:26Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455k
  Issue No: Vol. 48, No. 1 (2021)
Book Review: Early Medieval Ireland, 431–1169 by Matthew Stout
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  Authors: Michael Potterton
  Pages: 170 - 172
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 170-172, December 2021.
  
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-12-02T02:54:26Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455l
  Issue No: Vol. 48, No. 1 (2021)
Book Review: Landholding in the New English Settlement of Hacketstown, Co.
Carlow, 1635–1875 by Oliver Whelan
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  Authors: Brian Griffin
  Pages: 173 - 175
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 173-175, December 2021.
  
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-12-02T02:54:25Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455m
  Issue No: Vol. 48, No. 1 (2021)
Book Review: An Ulster Slave-owner in the Revolutionary Atlantic: The Life
and Letters of John Black by Jonathan Jeffrey Wright (ed.)
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  Authors: Patrick Walsh
  Pages: 175 - 177
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 175-177, December 2021.
  
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-12-02T02:54:25Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052455n
  Issue No: Vol. 48, No. 1 (2021)
Selected list of writings on Irish economic and social history published
in 2020
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  Authors: Thomas McGrath
  Pages: 178 - 188
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 178-188, December 2021.
  
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-12-02T02:53:52Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052461
  Issue No: Vol. 48, No. 1 (2021)
Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, Secretary’s Report to
the Annual General Meeting, December 18, 2020
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  Pages: 189 - 189
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 189-189, December 2021.
  
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-12-02T02:53:52Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211052462
  Issue No: Vol. 48, No. 1 (2021)
‘Not Christian, Civil or Human Creatures, But Heathen or Rather Savage
and Brute Beasts’: Andrew Trollope and the ‘Reform’ of Ireland in
the 1580s
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  Authors: David Heffernan
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Ahead of Print.
  The closing years of the reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603) saw a hardening of attitudes among many of the New English in Ireland towards the Irish and Old English communities there. Historians have concentrated on a number of works which exemplify this attitude, notably Edmund Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland. This article focuses on an earlier proponent of this outlook, a wandering lawyer, Andrew Trollope. In the 1580s, Trollope composed two extensive treatises on Ireland which contain some of the most vituperative attacks written by a Tudor commentator on the Irish, their character, religion and society. Often commented upon, though never examined in detail, this article provides the first in-depth assessment of Trollope’s writings.
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-08-25T09:19:34Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211039208
‘Responsible, effective and caring’: Gay Health Action, AIDS Activism
and Sexual Health in the Republic of Ireland, 1985–1989
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  Authors: David Kilgannon
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Ahead of Print.
  This article explores the role and impact of Gay Health Action (GHA), a voluntary AIDS organisation that operated in the Republic of Ireland between 1985 and 1989. Drawing on their publications and media engagement, it argues that GHA played a significant role in educating the general public about AIDS, while this group also challenged ideas about sexual health and dispelled negative stereotypes associated with homosexuality. In doing so, the activities of GHA begin to outline the initial public response to HIV/AIDS during the 1980s, while also contributing towards an emergent body of research on the changing nature of Irish society during the late-twentieth century. It suggests ways in which attitudes to the gay community were evolving and highlights the need for further research on AIDS, examinations of which can contribute towards the emergent histories of social change and health policy in this period.
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-08-20T09:22:46Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211039207
Reading and Print Cultures in Waterford, 1865–1939
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  Authors: David Toms
  Abstract: Irish Economic and Social History, Ahead of Print.
  This article sets out to explore the emergence of reading and print cultures in Waterford over the period from the opening of the city’s Free Public Library to the outbreak of the Second World War in the twentieth century. It is intended to add to the growing body of writing emerging on reading and books in Ireland by honing in on the development of a local reading culture in an era of more democratic access to books, periodicals and other printed matter. By surveying the development of various lending and circulation libraries up to the establishment of the Waterford Free Public Library in 1896 and beyond into the Free State era, the argument will be made that many of the concerns around self-improvement and literacy remained constant despite the shift from member-run libraries to municipal libraries and from Victorian concerns about moral self-improvement to early Irish state concerns about nation-building and Catholic morality in the 1920s and 1930s. The article will also explore the publishing and book trade in the city throughout the same period. This small but significant industry provided employment for some of the very people who were the target of self-improvement and concerns about their ability to consume ‘morally dubious’ literature.
  Citation: Irish Economic and Social History
  PubDate: 2021-08-04T09:21:11Z
  DOI: 10.1177/03324893211034119