Financing a Revolution: The economics of Michael Collins
The David McWilliams Podcast
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The Doal Government Was a Very Expensive Government
In the first two years of the doal government, 70 % of the expenditure went on economic development activities. That included giving loans to fishery coops in the west of ireland to buy boats and sell up processing areas. The english trading class didn't want money going into the setting up of competing businesses in ireland. It made no sense. Also, every item that was exported from ireland, the very little there was, and every item imported had to go through an english port. So there was a very restrictive, extremely restrictive trading practices against ireland. This counter state government had a extraordinary stuff.
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