Browsing JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847- by Title

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    • A Plan for the reduction and ultimate extinction of the National Debt 

      Urquhart, William Pollard (Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)
      The embarkation of England in a war; the failure of the anticipations at first indulged in by some parties, that this contest could be carried on out of the revenue of the country; the recent addition of sixteen millions ...

    • A plan of applying the latest sanctions of parliament in the management of the public debt and of town finance to the debts and borrowing powers of the town council of Dublin 

      Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1871)
      Of all the modes of borrowing money for public purposes which were resorted to by financiers from the reign of William III, when the National Debt may be said to have commenced, till 1816, when it reached its greatest ...

    • Planning suburbia: development density issues 

      Biddlecombe, Bob (Centre for Urban and Regional Studies. Trinity College Dublin, & the Faculty of the Built Environment, Dublin Institute of Technology. Bolton Street, 2002)
      The right of speculative developers and government officials to significantly modify the culture of its poorest and weakest citizens in order to amortise the land banks and squeeze an already overdeveloped city into its ...

    • A plea for Irish mines and minerals, under an Irish board, and for preparation of a mining survey 

      Geoghegan, Hanbury C. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)
      The first step is to have a careful mining survey made, for hitherto none has been attempted; the geological survey, about which more hereafter, was made from surface indications only, and from such mining information ...

    • A plea for tillage farming on co-operative lines 

      Castletown, Lord, of Upper Ossory (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)
      I must first of all apologise for the type of paper I am privileged to read before you tonight. It must be to a certain extent, egotistical, it must be in the nature of a proposition, and I must ask you to believe what ...

    • A plea for winter dairying 

      Johnston, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1931)
      Countrymen are familiar with the practice of holding out a carrot to an obstinate type of quadruped in order to induce it to go where it would otherwise be unwilling to go. When it gets there it may possibly get some ...

    • The political economy of development 

      Meenan, James (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1958)
      This Society was founded in 1847, twelve years after the British Association for the Advancement of Science had first met in Dublin. Its foundation reflected the contemporary interest in Political Economy; while its early ...

    • The political economy of development 

      Meenan, James (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1958)
      This Society was founded in 1847, twelve years after the British Association for the Advancement of Science had first met in Dublin. Its foundation reflected the contemporary interest in Political Economy; while its early ...

    • Politicians, the bureaucracy and economic policymaking over two crises: the 1950s and today 

      Barry, Frank (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)
      Recent reports into the performance of the Central Bank, the Financial Regulator and the Department of Finance in the lead-up to the current crisis identify three key weaknesses: the pressures towards `group think? within ...

    • Poor Law reform 

      Maguire, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)
      The aim of this paper is not to present a complete and elaborate scheme of Poor Law Reform?a transcendent task?but to indicate a few general and leading principles which, it is submitted, ought not to be lost sight of ...

    • Popular endeavour against tuberculosis?its instruments, methods, and results 

      McWeeney, E.J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)
      It was on the 24th March, 1882, that Koch brought forward his famous paper, in which he described his discovery of the Tubercle Bacillus, before the Berlin Physiological Society. Twenty-five years have since rolled by, ...

    • Population distribution in County Sligo 

      Freeman, T. W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1944)
      County Sligo had 180,886 inhabitants in 1841 and 67,447 in 1936, a decrease of 62.6 per cent. The eleven counties with an even more marked decline include Leitrim and Roscommon, but not Mayo, which had a decrease of ...

    • The population problem : a radio discussion 

      Brennan, Joseph; Geary, R. C.; Duncan, G. A.; O'Brien, George; Lyon, Stanley (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1938)
      The present discussion on the Irish population problem has been arranged on the invitation of the Director of Broadcasting by the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. This Society which in a few years will ...

    • Population projections 

      Knaggs, J. F.; Keane, T. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1972)
      The Central Statistics Office has developed a fairly general computer programme for making population projections. This paper is intended to give details of how the programme works and of the type of assumptions which ...

    • Population, employment and urbanisation trends in Northern Ireland 

      Simpson, J. V. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1976)
      In recent decades, Northern Ireland has experienced many of the problems of social, physical and economic development on a daunting scale. For the present, unfortunately, to these have been added the problems of civil ...

    • The port of Belfast 

      Sinclair, Kenneth (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1957)
      I have been asked to make the subject of my talk this evening the Port of Belfast. Many visitors to the Port, on being shown around, are surprised at its magnitude, and exclaim that previously they had no conception of ...

    • The Port of Cork 

      Horgan, John J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)
      The early importance of the Port of Cork is proved by the Charter granted by Henry VII in the year 1500 under which the Mayor of Cork was given jurisdiction over its waters. From this Grant arose the quaint and ancient ...

    • The port of Dublin 

      Hegarty, Denis A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1955)
      My purpose this evening is to tell you something about the Port of Dublin. I shall endeavour to do this in three stages, first I shall touch briefly on its history, then I shall describe the services which are required of ...

    • Post-war functions of commercial education 

      Williamson, Arthur (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1917)
      The title which I have chosen for the heading of this paper is at the best a vague and imperfect one. There are so many points to be considered, and the field of discussion is so wide as to our preparation for the Trade ...

    • Poverty as a cause of ill-health 

      Deeny, James (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1940)
      In Lurgan, Co. Armagh, where I practise, there is an excessive amount of sickness, and few people show really good health. By good health, I mean not merely the avoidance of disease, but the attainment and maintenance ...