[Finances of Ireland, 1911.] Printed pamphlet by ‘An Irishman’ (i.e. Thomas T. Shaw): ‘The Financial Relations of Ireland with the Imperial Exchequer’.

From the papers of Sylvia and Robert Lynd. Four copies traced: National Library of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, the British Library and Oxford University. BL identifies the author as ‘Thomas T. Shaw’; another source states ‘Thomas J. Shaw’. 47pp, 8vo. In green printed wraps. Stapled. Lightly aged, in worn wraps, and with slight blooming at head of first few leaves. The author goes about the ‘self-imposed task’ of his ‘little brochure’ with copious statistical evidence, including an eight-page appendix of tables. He concludes: ‘As I have worked unaided and unassisted I may have made mistakes, but I have felt impelled to publish this little work in my country’s interest as, after an examination of the various returns, I felt quite sure that the basis on which the Treasury calculations relating to Ireland were being made in many respects were not prepared in a manner to attribute to Ireland the revenue really and properly attributable to it.’ There is a discussion of ‘home-made spirits’, and it may be that the author is the Thomas James Shaw, ‘managing partner in the firm of Joseph Shaw and Son, Mullingar’, who gave evidence to a royal commission in 1908.