[Irish Public Finance, 1912: ‘The present position is indefensible’.] Printed pamphlet: ‘The Public Finances of Ireland / By Professor C. H. Oldham, B.A., B.L., University College, Dublin’.

From the Sylvia and Robert Lynd papers. Scarce: no copy on JISC, but in NLI. 16pp, 12mo. Stitched. No wraps. The outer covers spotted, and the back cover grubby, otherwise in good condition, lightly aged. One vertical fold. The author’s position, supported with statistical analysis, is that ‘The present position is indefensible as it stands; and it is becoming worse. But it is a logical and an absolutely legal consequence of the financial arrangements of the Act of Union, 1800, which made the United Parliament responsible for expenditure in Ireland, and of the Act of 1816 which consolidated the revenues of the two countries.’ Ends with page-long appendix on ‘The Present “Taxable Capacity” of Ireland’. This paper is said to have been to the British Association in Portsmouth in 1911, but it is not stated therein.