Wood’s halfpence controversy

E1752741 UNEXPLORED

Wood’s halfpence controversy was an 18th-century Irish political and economic dispute sparked by the British Crown’s grant of a patent to William Wood to mint copper coinage for Ireland, which provoked widespread opposition and influential pamphleteering, notably by Jonathan Swift.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Referenced by

All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Wood’s Halfpence controversy	1
Wood’s halfpence controversy canonical	1

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The Third Letter to the Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdom of Ireland → historicalContext → Wood’s halfpence controversy ⓘ

A Letter to the Lord Chancellor Middleton → mainSubject → Wood’s Halfpence controversy ⓘ

linked to: Wood’s halfpence controversy