English Interference With Irish Industries (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Neill, J. G. Swift Mac

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333723016 ISBN 13 : 9781333723019

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

How trade laws shaped Ireland’s economy and identity—and what it meant for a people fighting for control of their own future.

This nonfiction examination tracks how English restrictions on Irish trade affected everyday life, industry, and politics. It draws connections between commercial policy, popular movements, and debates about Ireland’s political status, while keeping the focus on the practical impacts of these laws.

The author surveys historical arguments, key figures, and significant episodes to show how trade shaped national sentiment and economic options. It emphasizes that self-reliance and the use of native manufactures were seen by many as essential remedies, and it places Swift’s ideas alongside later critics and defenders of Ireland’s commercial fate.

- Understand how trade acts influenced industries like wool and textiles, and how those effects fed wider political tensions.
- See how debates about independence and governance intersected with questions about who should write Ireland’s economic rules.
- Learn about the volunteers movement and the call for domestic production as a way to strengthen national self-sufficiency.
- Explore how historical voices argued for economic methods to empower Irish people and challenge external control.

Ideal for readers of Irish history, economic history, and 19th‑century policy debates seeking a clear view of how commerce and nationhood collided.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Agriculture is at the present time almost the only industry in I reland. This fact has frequently been noticed and deplored. Public men of widely different views on other matters agree in their estimate of I relands economic condition, of which they give but one explanation. Thus Mr. Gladstone, on the introduction of the I rish Land Bill in A pril, 1881, spoke of that old and standing evil of I reland, that land-hunger, which must not be described as if it were merely an infirmity of the people for it, and really means land scarcity. In I reland, says Mr. Bright, land, from certain causes that are not difficult to discover, is the only thing for the employment of the people, with the exception of some portion of the country in the North ;the income for the maintenance of their homes, and whatever comfort they have, or prospect of saving money for themselves or their families, comes from the cultivation of the soil, and scarcely at all from those various resources to which the people of England have recourse in the course of their industrial lives. t Hansard, 260, Third Series, p. 893. t Hansard, 261, Third Series, p. 96.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333723016
• ISBN 13: 9781333723019
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 136
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