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| Titre : | 'Interest' and Anglo-Irish Political Discourse in the 1720-21 Bank Pamphlet Literature (2014) |
| Auteurs : | Jill Marie BRADBURY, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Eighteenth-Century Ireland (vol. 29 2014) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 31-46 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | The language of 'interest' was a key feature in 1720-21 debates about an Irish national bank, as it was in the wider British and trans-Atlantic context. In the pamphlet literature, multiple meanings of 'interest' were leveraged to analyze the impact of the proposed bank on the balance of power between England and Ireland, Irish Protestants and Catholics, and the merchant / financial and landed classes. The intersecting registers of 'interest' allowed these political, economic and social concerns to be related to one overarching concern: the good of Ireland. This semantic multiplicity was deployed as a rhetorical strategy to express divergent opinions on the policies that would best promote the nation's welfare. The bank debate was thus an important context for the articulation and dissemination of economic welfare as a central element of Irish patriot discourse. The deployment of the various meanings of 'interest' also reveals how traditions of English political thought were appropriated and leveraged in the development of early Irish national identity |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Lieu de publication : | Dublin |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Jill Marie Bradbury |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
