Irish Whiskey. A history of distilling, the spirit trade and excise controls in Ireland

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Author(s) McGuire, E B
Publication type Monograph
Year published 1973
Pages 462pp; illus
Publisher Gill & Macmillan
Place Published Dublin

Topics:

Name Taxation inc customs, excise, stamp duties, etc: imposition & impact
Name Legislation & regulation exc h&s & competition policy

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Library:

Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:

See also the writer's doctoral thesis 'History of the Distilling Industry, the Spirit Trade and Excise Controls in Ireland up to 1945', Queen's University Belfast, 1973. The writer was sometime a senior manager in Customs & Excise. Deals with the industry in Ireland, largely from 1700, then a neglected area of historical study. Covers especially the early impact of government to control manufacture and consumption and to raise revenue. Has sections: 'Distillery processes'; 'Distillery apparatus'; 'Assessing spirit'; 'The Excise administration'; 'Early history'; 'The middle period, 1780-1823'; 'The nineteenth century, 1823-1900'; 'The present century'; 'Distillers past and present'; 'Illicit distillation'