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Tintawn and Binder Twine - The Story of Eric Rigby-Jones and Irish Ropes (Hardcover)
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Tintawn and Binder Twine - The Story of Eric Rigby-Jones and Irish Ropes (Hardcover)
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When the future of his family's rope business in Liverpool was
threatened at the end of the 1920s Eric Rigby-Jones had to leave
his wife and young family behind to risk everything on establishing
a new factory in the Irish Free State. He was still an officer in
the Territorial Army when he leased a former British cavalry
barracks in co. Kildare from the Irish government in 1933. It had
lain derelict since the departure of British troops in 1922. Within
four years his company, Irish Ropes, was supplying nearly all of
Ireland's rope. When war came in 1939 Ireland remained staunchly
neutral and faced both German invasion and a British trade embargo.
With the government determined to make the country self-sufficient
Eric had to resort to increasingly desperate measures to ensure
that Irish farmers never ran out of twine to gather the harvest.
Tintawn and Binder Twine is the untold story of the foundation and
eventual demise of an iconic Irish business, known around the world
for its Red Setter twine and Tintawn sisal carpets; of the
pioneering Englishman who founded it and introduced new concepts in
industrial relations to Ireland; of a family separated in peace and
war; and of the regeneration of an Irish town. It is also the story
of sisal, the vegetable fibre that became the mainstay of East
Africa's colonial economy, and of the first fifty years of an
independent Irish state. A member of Eric's wider family, Thomas
Jones, was secretary to the British delegation that negotiated the
Anglo-Irish treaty in 1921 and his son, Michael, was killed in the
Staines air disaster in 1972 while travelling to Brussels with an
Irish delegation for talks about the country's imminent membership
of the European Union. Well-illustrated and drawing heavily on
unpublished family letters, documents, and photographs as well as
new research in British and Irish archives, the book reveals
intriguing but little-known sides to Anglo-Irish relations during
the Second World War. It has particular relevance in today's world
of Brexit, borders, tariffs, and the bullying of small nations by
large.
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