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1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Oxford Historical Monographs |
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Oxford historical monographs.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Shadow of a Taxman: Who Funded the Irish Revolution? -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Appendices -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I: FUNDS FROM HOME -- 1: How to Fund a Revolution -- 'Even the most humble' -- The Path to Revolution -- How to Fund a Counter-State -- A Notional Loan? -- 2: Organizing the National Loan -- The Threat from Within: Coordination and Opportunism -- The Threat from Without: The British Authorities -- 'Pinching M. C.'s "war chest"' -- 3: Manufacturing Dissent |
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Appealing to the Base -- Appealing to the Masses -- Promotion by Suppression -- Celebrity Endorsement -- Closing the Sale -- 4: Who Subscribed to the National Loan? -- 'One of the most extraordinary feats in the country's history' -- Who Were the Subscribers? -- A Census of Subscribers to the National Loan -- The Radicalization of Public Opinion -- Complicating the Narrative -- PART II: FUNDS FROM ABROAD -- 5: Diaspora Finance: The First Hundred Years -- A Trans-AtlanticPartnership -- American Funds and the Rise of Sinn Féin -- 6: Organizing the External Loan -- Laying the Foundations |
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Enter James O'Mara -- Plan of Action -- 7: Showtime -- 'Something typically Irish as well as essentially modern' -- Irish Loan Week -- Around the States -- The Power of the Press -- 'Mite to Murder': The View from Downing Street -- De Valera's Advocates -- The South -- 8: Behind the Scenes -- The Gathering Storm -- (Dis)organization -- The Cuba Interview -- The Trials of James O'Mara -- With Friends Like These . . . -- The US Presidential Election: Who Speaks for Ireland? -- Tipping Point -- 9: 'A Roll of Honor of the Irish Race' -- Nationwide Results -- The Gaelic American |
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'The big money people' -- The Little People -- Patriots or Dupes? -- 'From the pockets of American servant girls' -- 'Men and women of all creeds and races' -- 10: Encore: The Second External Loan -- American Opinion -- Arms Fund Levy -- Acomri -- Exit James O'Mara -- Holding the Purse Strings, Pulling the Strings -- The Second External Loan -- Preparation -- Action -- The Treaty -- 11: Coda: Argentina and the Rest of the World -- The Empire -- Argentina -- Laurence Ginnell, Envoy Extraordinary -- Disunited Irishmen, Again -- Launch -- Teatro Coliseo -- Epilogue |
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APPENDIX A: Nationwide Results of the National Loan, by Constituency -- APPENDIX B: Nationwide Results of the First External Loan, by US State -- Bibliography -- 1. Primary Manuscript Sources -- 2. Secondary Sources -- Index |
| Summary |
Who funded the Irish Revolution? In Shadow of a Taxman, R. J. C. Adams investigates how the unrecognised Irish Republic's money was solicited, collected, transmitted, and safeguarded, as well as who the financial backers were and what influenced their decision to contribute from as far afield as New York, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, and Melbourne |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed March 31, 2023) |
| Subject |
Savings bonds -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
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Savings bonds
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| SUBJECT |
Ireland -- History -- War of Independence, 1919-1921 -- Finance
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Ireland -- History -- War of Independence, 1919-1921 -- Economic aspects
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| Subject |
Ireland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192666352 |
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0192666355 |
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0191944734 |
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9780191944734 |
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