RSS 1.0JSSISI: 1952 to 1957, Vol. XIX, Sessions 106th to 110th
Recent Submissions
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Radio Eireann listener research inquiries, 1953-1955
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)Radio Eireann began conducting its own listener research in. March 1953 and has since completed four inquiries on listening in the Twenty Six Counties. The first referred to listening in the fortnight 15th-28th March 1953, ... -
Marriage in Ireland after the famine: the diffusion of the match
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)Of all the casualties of Irish social life in the decades after the Famine, one of the most significant was marriage of the kind which had become all but universal in peasant families. Many of the characteristics of social ... -
The significance of veterinary science in the national economy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)I propose to go into the economic significance of veterinary science in the Republic of Ireland and to relate the evidence to the year 1954. The most significant figures I have arrived at are derived from the returns on ... -
Irish hospital finance
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)It will be readily understood that the energies of the local and central Government bodies in the 1920's were very considerably absorbed by general tasks of national reconstruction, with the result that little could be ... -
Variability in agricultural statistics on small and medium-sized farms in an Irish county
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1957)Irish agricultural statistics, going back in an almost unbroken annual sequence for more than a hundred years, are amongst the country's most precious statistical possessions, and indications are that they will assume even ... -
Meteorology and the community
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1957)Should scientists be subordinate to Civil Servants? Should the scientific services be amalgamated under one Ministry of Applied Science? Is there sufficient liaison between the meteorologists and other scientists, ... -
A half century of fertiliser and lime use in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1957)The importance of a satisfactory supply of nutrient elements and lime, in soils, is now universally recognised as one of the major factors in crop production. When a crop, either tillage or pasture, is harvested from a ... -
An amended Irish monetary system
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1957)To understand the Irish monetary system it is necessary to know something of its development and of the general economic position of the Irish economy. It is a truism, but a very important one, that the Irish economy is ... -
Economic leviathans
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1953)Students of world economic affairs in the inter-war period were impressed by the extent to which the world scene was dominated by the economic policies (or impolicies) of two great economic leviathans : the U.S.A., and ... -
Drifting to absolutism ?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1953)Thirty years ago, more or less, we attained our independence as a nation and proceeded to set up our own government with high hopes for our island territory both within and beyond the dividing frontier which cuts across ... -
Accounting and economic decision
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1953)Accounts, whether prepared for shareholders or management, provide a systematic basis for determining the employment of a very large part of national resources of manpower, material and technique. I conceive that an attempt ... -
The International Labour Organisation - its origins and story
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1953)This is a factual statement. It does not deal with such fascinating speculations as the extent to which the I.L.O. has contributed to the Welfare State, the effect of the creation of common denominators in hours of work ... -
The social geography of Belfast
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)The main task of the social geographer is to analyse the relationship between social groups and their environment and to identify the regional differentiation of such relationships. In a town or city the relationships ... -
An Analysis of Irish Transport Acts, 1944 and 1950, and of the financial and operating statistics of Coras Iompair Eireann and the Great Northern Railway Co., 1945-51
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)In January, 1946, I read a paper before this Society, on the financial and operating statistics of the G.S. Rys. Co. and G.N.R. Co., 1938-44, which was preceded in May, 1938, by a similar survey of the G.S. Rys. Co. 1925-37, ... -
Aspects of public expenditure in Northern Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)Northern Ireland's financial relations with the rest of the United Kingdom always arouse lively interest inside the region. Recently, however, a more urgent interest in these relations has been developing here and at the ... -
A study of factors which determine the supply of pigs
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)In a free economy, where prices and production are not controlled, pig numbers move in characteristic cycles, each cycle averaging about four years in length. These pig cycles are the resultant of many physical and economic ... -
The Northern Ireland trade union movement
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)Twenty-eight years ago, this Society listened to a paper on Irish trade unionism. Then, the speaker outlined a movement that was trying to adjust itself to vital political changes that had taken place in the life of the ... -
Reflections on comparing the Irish and English Companies Acts
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)Some time ago the Government appointed a Committee of distinguished experts to consider the amendment of Irish Company Law. You may wonder, therefore, why anyone else should read a paper about it. There are two reasons. ... -
The family in Irish Census of Population statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1955)It is necessary at the outset to emphasise the experimental character of the paper, the principal object of which is to present the results of a special analysis of a sample of 6,280 families from the Census of Population ... -
A comparison of the national incomes and social accounts of Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1955)In March, 1933, Dr. T. J. Kiernan published in the Economic Journal a paper on ?The National Income of the Irish Free State in 1926,? following it in June by a paper to this Society on National Expenditure. Since that time ...
