JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847-: Recent submissions
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The Northern Ireland census of population and housing: looking back and looking forward
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)A census of population and housing, even in a country as small as Northern Ireland, is a major undertaking and much time, effort and resources are devoted to it. At a national level it is the largest single statistical ... -
Economic management in Ireland post-EMU: policy implications of globalisation and regionalisation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1999)In today?s increasingly globalised economy, it is something of a paradox that while policy-making autonomy is being progressively ceded by states to supranational organisations, regions within nation states have also begun ... -
Profits and wages in Ireland, 1987-1996
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)A striking feature of the Irish economic resurgence since 1987 has been a major factor income shift away from labour and towards capital. (The profit share has increased from 25.1 per cent in 1987 to 34.8 per cent in 1996.) ... -
Economic management in Ireland post-EMU: Ireland?s potential within EMU
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1999)A tendency to seriousness is not usually a characteristic associated with the Irish but our national image may be in the process of being redefined as we treat the management of success with almost as much caution and worry ... -
Tramway legislation, with suggestions for promoting steam tramways in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)I propose in the present paper to point out the legislation which has taken place for the promotion of tramways on country roads in Ireland. I do not propose to touch upon those Acts that have been passed by private companies ... -
On some comparative statistics of Irish counties, compiled from the returns obtained during the late census and the census of 1841, and other publications issued by the General Register Office of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)In the following statement I wish to bring under review a number of statistics which I have arranged since the completion of the Census of 1881. These statistics are not altogether derived from the census reports, but are ... -
On the anomalous differences in the poor-laws of Ireland and of England with reference to outdoor relief, area of taxation, etc.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)The paper I am about to read possesses no claim to originality. I have merely put together the conclusions arrived at by a few gentlemen interested in the question of poor relief, who met and considered some points connected ... -
Report on homes of the poor
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)The state of the dwellings of the working and poorer population has been now so fully recognized as one of the most potent causes of all that is deplorable in the sanitary and social conditions of this city, that we do not ... -
The future of American agricultural competition
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)In this paper I shall endeavour to bring before the members of the Statistical Society some figures, which seem to me to throw considerable light on the vexed question of the extent to which farming in the United Kingdom ... -
Suggestions for the simplification of the procedure in relation to the sale of land in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1885)I am indebted to the Council of your Society for the privilege of submitting for your consideration this evening, some suggestions for the simplification of the procedure in relation to the sale of land in Ireland, and I ... -
The Acts for taking the census in England, Scotland, and Ireland, of 1881
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)In the last session of Parliament three Acts were passed for taking the Census of the United Kingdom during the present year. The English Act is 43 & 44 Vic. c. 37. The Scotch Act, c, 38, and the Irish Act, c. 28. Inasmuch ... -
On some economic conditions of industrial development with special reference to the case of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)The improvement and expansion of the industrial powers of a country are naturally objects of considerable interest to all its inhabitants, but there does not appear to be any definite idea as to the laws which govern the ... -
The substitution of stock for other forms of local indebtedness
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The substitution of debenture stock or consolidated stock for other forms of local indebtedness has already occupied the attention of this Society. I find that in July, 1871, Doctor Neilson Hancock contributed to its ... -
A review of some of the subjects in the report of the Royal Commission on Prisons in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1885)A review of some of the subjects in the Report of the Royal Commission on Prisons in Ireland has appeared to me a subject well worthy of consideration before this Society, dealing as it does with social problems of vast ... -
Registration of title indispensable for peasant proprietors
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)The subject of this paper is a branch of the large and difficult problem which increasingly engages the attention of social and legal reformers; how, namely, to combine security of titles to landed properties with facilities ... -
On the cost and delay in obtaining loans on land and the high rate of interest charged to tenants for loans
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The failure of the potato crop in Ireland, in 1845, which led to Sir Robert Peel's cabinet adopting and carrying Free Trade, was followed by the still more extensive failure in 1846. This brought on a paralysis of credit, ... -
Address at the opening of the Thirty-eighth Session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1885)Before entering on the subject of my address to-night, I feel that I must thank you very heartily for the great honour you have conferred upon me in placing me in the position of president of your society. When I look over ... -
A Swiss land credit bank
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1885)The demand for legislation to facilitate the lending of public money on small plots of land in Ireland?a demand which is beginning to be made for England also?and the repeated failures to give effect to this demand in ... -
Suggestions for remedying defects in international marriage as affects women married in the United Kingdom to foreigners
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)At a public meeting in the Mansion House, in this city, Miss Ada M. Leigh, the Lady President of the Association of Mission Homes for the protection of Englishwomen and Children, at 17 Avenue Wagram, Paris, called attention ... -
On the extent to which the principles advocated in ?Bentham's Letters on Usury? have still to be adopted in the laws of England and of foreign countries
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)The abolition of the Usury Laws may, by many, be considered complete in England, and to have removed them and their demerits out of the class of subjects of practical importance which this Society is accustomed to discuss. ...
