The Anglo-Irish Trade War | Éamon de Valera – The Man that was Ireland
On coming to power in 1932 Éamon de Valera waged a trade war against the United Kingdom in pursuit of constitutional and economic reform. His actions are often blamed for holding back national development though he actually managed to win major concessions for Ireland. There are very few lessons a modern leader bent on economic upheaval can take from de Valera though…
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Sources
Republicans & Imperialists – Deirdre McMahon
Industrial Development and Irish National Identity – Mary E. Daly
De Valera: Rule – David McCullagh
Protection, Economic War and Structural Change- J. Peter Neary and Cormac Ó Gráda
Burn Everything British but Their Coal: The Anglo-Irish Economic War of the 1930’s – Kevin O’Rourke
Law Without Loyalty- The Abolition of the Irish Appeal to the Privy Council
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