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Abstract
Land reform and its financial arrangements are central elements of modern Irish history. Yet to date, the financial mechanisms underpinning Irish land reform have been overlooked. The article outlines the mechanisms of land reform in Ireland and the importance of land bonds to the process. Advances worth over £127 million were made to tenant farmers to purchase their holdings. These schemes enabled the transfer of over three-quarters of land on the island of Ireland. The article introduces a new database on Irish land bonds listed on the Dublin Stock Exchange from 1891 to 1938. It illustrates the nature of these bonds and presents data on their size, liquidity and market returns. The article finds a high level of state banking in Ireland: large issues of land bonds were held by state-owned savings banks.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 71-109 |
| Number of pages | 39 |
| Journal | Financial History Review |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 18 Mar 2016 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2016 |
Keywords
- Dublin Stock Exchange
- Irish financial history
- land bonds
- land reform
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Copyright © European Association for Banking and Financial History e.V. 2016. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0968565016000019
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A Messy Divorce? Irish Debt and Default: A Messy Divorce? Irish Debt and Default, 1891-1938
McLaughlin, E. (PI)
1/09/14 → 31/12/15
Project: Fellowship