{"title":"Book Review: Physical Education in Irish Schools, 1900–2000: A History by Conor Curran","authors":"Paul Rouse","doi":"10.1177/03324893221133416a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03324893221133416a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41191,"journal":{"name":"Irish Economic and Social History","volume":"49 1","pages":"137 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44736838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Economic and Social History Society of IrelandSecretary's report to the Annual General MeetingDecember 4, 2021","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/03324893221133586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03324893221133586","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41191,"journal":{"name":"Irish Economic and Social History","volume":"49 1","pages":"168 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44596985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: The Alliance of Pirates: Ireland and Atlantic Piracy in the Early Seventeenth Century by Connie Kelleher","authors":"Raymond Gillespie","doi":"10.1177/03324893221133416e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03324893221133416e","url":null,"abstract":"was (not including the £10,000 he owed the queen for the right to settle Antrim). It seems that a powerful motive for colonisation was personal profit that remained unrealised. Why, despite such significant investment by Essex and others (including the government in London), the settlement scheme remained unrealised is an intriguing question and is clearly bound up with the complex character of the earl. It also reflected some of the structural problems of the Elizabethan state. Heffernan argues that the most significant problem that Essex had to deal with was the queen herself, and particularly her inability to make decisions, and the Privy Council’s love of issuing contradictory orders that left Essex compromised in his dealing with O’Neill. These are valid insights but perhaps even more important than these was the inability of early modern central administrations to control events as complex and multi-faceted as plantations without any significant administrative support. The result, revealed in every settlement from Leix-Offaly to the Longford plantation of the seventeenth century, was the way in which local circumstances neutralised the best-laid plans of Dublin or London and changed the design and execution of settlement. More studies like this one will allow us to nuance this insight. For such studies, this is a model to follow with its rigorous analysis of sources and its careful narrative.","PeriodicalId":41191,"journal":{"name":"Irish Economic and Social History","volume":"49 1","pages":"144 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43734498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selected list of writings on Irish Economic and Social History published in 2021","authors":"T. McGrath","doi":"10.1177/03324893221134613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03324893221134613","url":null,"abstract":"BARTON, Christopher P. Perseverance, resistance, and community: an introduction to the history, heritage, and archaeology of Great Blasket, County Kerry, Ireland. New Hibernia Review, 25:4, 113–33. BEATTIE, Séan. Mr Tuke’s emigration fund 1882–1884: a Quaker assisted emigration initiative. Saothar, 46, 109–22. BEATTY, Aidan. Counter-revolutionary masculinities: gender, social control and revising the chronologies of Irish nationalist politics. Irish Studies Review, 29:2, 229–42. BEATTY, Aidan. The problem of capitalism in Irish Catholic social thought, 1922–1950. Études Irelandaises, 46:2, 43–68. BEINER, Guy. When monuments fall: the significance of decommemorating. Éire-Ireland, 56:1/2, 33–61. BENDER, Abby. Shame and the breastfeeding mother in Ireland. Éire-Ireland, 56:3/4, 104–29. BENNETT, Martyn, GILLESPIE, Ray and SPURLOCK, R. Scott (eds). Cromwell and Ireland: new perspectives. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. BHREATHNACH, Edel and DOWLING, Ger. Forming an episcopal see and an Augustinian foundation in medieval Ireland: the case of Ferns, Co. Wexford. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature, 121C, 191–226. BOYD, Rebecca and STONE, David. Where next for Ireland’s Viking towns? Reconsidering environmental archaeology and Viking Age urban deposits. Journal of Irish Archaeology, 29, 167– 74. BRADY, Joseph and MCMANUS, Ruth. Building healthy homes: Dublin Corporation’s first housing schemes, 1880–1925. Dublin: Four Courts Press. BRESLIN, John and BUCKLEY, Sarah-Anne.Old Ireland in colour 2. Newbridge: Irish Academic Press. BULL, Philip. The Civil War in Wexford: raids and alarms at Monksgrange, 1922–3. The Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, 21, 90–112. BURKE, John. Roscommon: the Irish Revolution, 1912–23. Dublin: Four Courts Press. BUTLER, Richard J. (ed.). Dreams of the future in nineteenth-century Ireland. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. Bibliography","PeriodicalId":41191,"journal":{"name":"Irish Economic and Social History","volume":"49 1","pages":"160 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45235165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Social Life in Pre-Reformation Dublin, 1450–1540 by Peadar Slattery","authors":"Brendan Scott","doi":"10.1177/03324893221133416k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03324893221133416k","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41191,"journal":{"name":"Irish Economic and Social History","volume":"49 1","pages":"156 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45462001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700–2000 by Claudia Kinmonth","authors":"Ali Fitzgerald","doi":"10.1177/03324893221133416f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03324893221133416f","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41191,"journal":{"name":"Irish Economic and Social History","volume":"49 1","pages":"146 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47399638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘A Man Who Has Both Arms’: Arthur Griffith, the Economy and the Anglo-Irish Treaty Agreement 1921","authors":"Colum Kenny","doi":"10.1177/03324893221093561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03324893221093561","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":41191,"journal":{"name":"Irish Economic and Social History","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47916823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ireland and the Marshall Plan: E.C.A.'s Manoeuvring to Promote Dollar Tourism","authors":"Anne Groutel","doi":"10.1177/03324893221080610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03324893221080610","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":41191,"journal":{"name":"Irish Economic and Social History","volume":"49 1","pages":"116 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41400498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Irish Receipt Roll of 1301–2: Data Science and Medieval Exchequer Practice","authors":"Brendan G C Smith, Mike Jones","doi":"10.1177/03324893211067419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03324893211067419","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":41191,"journal":{"name":"Irish Economic and Social History","volume":"49 1","pages":"3 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49156845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Politics as Usual: Charles Edward Trevelyan and the Irish and Scottish Fisheries Before and During the Great Famine","authors":"J. Leazer","doi":"10.1177/03324893211049539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03324893211049539","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":41191,"journal":{"name":"Irish Economic and Social History","volume":"49 1","pages":"47 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41956937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}