‘Hang up half a dozen bankers’:attitudes to bankers in mid-eighteenth-century Ireland

The late 1720s and early 1730s were a period of economic despair in Ireland, as trade stagnated and a succession of poor harvests brought famine and disease. Against this background, anger at bankers and a general distrust of the ‘monied’ section in society became recurring themes in a vigorous pamphlet literature, which considered the causes ... Read more

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