Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016

“This is an excellent and important book. Kanter and Walsh do an able job as both writers and editors, and ensure that several significant themes are capably developed across multiple essays. As a result, this volume makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of taxation in Ireland and invites further research.” (Karen Sonnelitter, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Vol. 34, 2019)
“The book is very well compiled, the panel of contributors well chosen and it reads coherently—aided by the chronological order of studies. … This provides us with a very clear and detailed illustration of the maxim in the introduction that ‘taxation is first and foremost a political issue’, and that the formulation and implementation of taxation initiatives are determined politically rather than forideological or philosophical reasons.” (Ciarán Mac an Bhaird, Studia Hibernica, Vol. 45, 2019)

Douglas Kanter
 is associate professor of modern British, Irish, and British imperial history at Florida Atlantic University, USA. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is the author of 
The Making of British Unionism, 1740-1848: Politics, Government and the Anglo-Irish Constitutional Relationship 
(2009).

Patrick Walsh
 is assistant professor of eighteenth-century Irish history at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His publications include 
The South Sea Bubble and Ireland: Money, Banking and Investment, 1690-1721 
(Woodbridge, 2014) and with Aaron Graham 
The British and Irish Fiscal-Military States, 1660-1783 
(London, 2016).