When the heavy extra tax on beer and spirits was levied by the first supplementary Budget, he opposed it angrily: "You are doing some shipbuilding at Belfast, you are making a few explosives at Arklow, you are buying some woollen goods from some of the smaller manufacturers, but apart from that, the bulk of the hundreds of millions of borrowed money which you are spending on the war is being spent in England and in increasing the income of your country."
"John Redmond's Last Years"
Stephen Gwynn
The Mediterranean ironworks and yards, together with other private companies, have large workshops for the construction or repair of marine steam-engines, and for every branch of iron shipbuilding, employing several thousand workmen.
"The South of France--East Half"
Charles Bertram Black
Paper-making and shipbuilding are the principal industries.
"The South of France--East Half"
Charles Bertram Black