The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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THE UNION WITH IRELAND 589 that economic grievances were the fundamental reason for the AD 15s revolt, on the American side, appears to have been mistaken. ’ Still, this opinion had immediate and important results on sy the the remaining members of the colonial system, especially in jorge the country which had suffered most severely from British economic policy’. In 1779 Lord North endeavoured to re- move the main commercial disabilities of Ireland?; and after 1782, when the Nationalist movement had been so far successful as to obtain a fuller Parliamentary freedom? a jin serious effort was made by the Irish to imitate the policy more that had been adopted in England, and thus to foster their 7477 W- agriculture and industry. A large number of measures, with these objects in view, The Irish was passed in the Parliamentary session 1783—4; but it is He not clear that sufficient pains were taken to consider the real requirements of the country. This objection may certainly be made in regard to the Act which followed the English policy of giving bounties on corn. The circumstances of the two og countries were somewhat different ; for corn did not constitute mentary the food of the Irish peasant, who subsisted chiefly on potatoes ; Colbertism. premiums on the growing of corn were a boon to farming as a trade, but did not directly maintain the food supply of the country. Hence the political bearing of the Irish corn bounties was different from that of the English, even though many of the economic results may have been similar. The bounties gave no encouragement to provide a surplus of food, and no security that a slight failure of the food supply would not result in famine. According to the new law the Irish farmer could count on getting nearly 30s. a barrel for his wheat; a bounty of 8s. 4d. was given on export, when the price was not above 27s.; exportation was prohibited when the price was 1 Burke in 1778 put forward the doctrine that Ireland should be free to use its natural facilities. Works, 1. 224; Salomon, 100. 2 18 Geo. III. cc. 55 had opened up the colonial trade, and free trade was granted by 20 Geo. III. cc. 6, 10, 18, An Act to permit the exportation of certain goods directly from Ireland into any British plantation in America, or any British settlement on the coast of Africa, and for further encouraging the fisheries and navigation of Ireland. 8 By the repeal of Poynings’ Law which gave the English Privy Council control over Irish legislation, and of the Declaratory Act (6 Geo. I. c. 5), which asserted the right of the English Parliament to legislate for Ireland. Lecky, England, Tv. 551.

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