Francis M. Carroll

Money for Ireland

Finance, Diplomacy, Politics, and the First Dail Eireann Loans, 1919-1936

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Raising money was one of the great successes of the Irish government, as the funds provided the sinews of war with which to fight Britain. This book details the history of the financing of the Irish revolution from both domestic and international loans. Divisions in Irish society over the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the creation of the Irish Free State led to the outbreak of the Civil War. The Free State's ability to deny the anti-Treaty forces access to the loan funds through a ten-year court battle would prove a powerful weapon in defeating the Republicans. The Dáil government depended on the loans to finance their operations, and the failure of the anti-Treaty forces was due in part to their shortage of funds. International complications arose for the Free State when courts in Dublin and New York disagreed over dispersal of the money. Upon his return to government office, Eamon de Valera appealed to bond holders, particularly those in the United States, to give the loan money to him to found an opposition newspaper. Only when de Valera himself formed a government would all of the bond money be repaid. These events would raise questions of international law, and the results would shape Irish relations with the United States for a decade.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780275977108
• ISBN-10: 0275977102
• Artikelnr.: 22323144

Autorenporträt

Francis M. Carroll is professor of history at St. John's College, the University of Manitoba.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Dáil Éireann and the Need for Money The Irish Bond-Certificate
Drive in America The Treaty Crisis, the Civil War, and Rival Claims for the
Dáil Funds The Dáil Funds in the New York Courts New Claims for the
Bond-Certificates The Irish Settlement Appendix I: Promotional Material for
the Internal Loan in Ireland Appendix II: Promotional Material for the Sale
of Bond-Certificates in the United States Appendix III: The Impact of the
Bond Cases in International Law Appendix IV: Fogarty v. O'Donoghue, from
The Irish Reports Appendix V: Irish Free State, et al. v. Guaranty Safe
Deposit Company, et al., from New York Miscellaneous Reports Bibliography