Money for Ireland - Finance, Diplomacy, Politics, and the First Dáil Éireann Loans, 1919–1936

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Francis M. Carroll, Carroll Francis M.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2002
• EAN: 9780275977108
• ISBN: 978-0-275-97710-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 425 g
• Series: Praeger Studies in Diplomacy and Strategic Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; USA, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Finance, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, International Relations, Ireland, British & Irish history, United States of America, USA, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Public finance, Public finance and taxation, World History: Economics