Dr Robin Adams Awarded Book Prize by American Conference of Irish Studies
Dr Robin Adams, a Research Fellow at Queen’s Business School, was awarded a prestigious book prize at the annual American Conference of Irish Studies (ACIS), held at San José State University from 7–10 June 2023.
Established in 1960, the ACIS is a leading multidisciplinary academic organisation that seeks to promote inclusive, dynamic, and diverse research and writing on Irish history, language, literature, folklore, social studies, and fine and applied arts.
Dr Robin Adams, from the Centre for Economic History at Queen’s Business School, is the recipient of the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book for his work Shadow of a Taxman: Who Funded the Irish Revolution? (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Shadow of a Taxman draws on a range of sources – including bond subscriptions, census returns, intelligence reports, and IRA membership rolls – to provides the first demographic analysis of non-combatant supporters of Irish independence.
According to the ACIS judging panel:
“Shadow of a Taxman is an expertly written and researched text rooted in a quantitative and qualitative study of the global financial networks that funded the Irish Revolution. Adams’s work includes hitherto unstudied nuances of these financial networks in a manner that offers a meaningful and nuanced reassessment of the participation of non-combatants by way of their financial contributions to the national cause.”
Congratulations to Robin on this well-deserved prize.
