JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847-: Recent submissions
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Report of a local committee as to the best means of diminishing vice and crime in Dublin
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)In respect of marriage, the law draws a clear line for the protection of minors under twenty-one years of age. By Lord Hardwicke's famous Act against clandestine marriages, Parliament lays down the principle that they are ... -
A description of some leases based on the principle of parliamentary tenant-right
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)Sir George Campbell, in an admirable pamphlet published in June, 1869, points out with great clearness the de facto state of land tenure in Ireland. He shows that although the legal conditions were at that time substantially ... -
The Irish export trade in butter, with special reference to the regulations of the Cork market
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)At a period like the present, when more interest than usual is felt in all inquiries as to the nature and amount of our industrial resources, I have thought that it would not be out of place to call the attention of this ... -
Suggestions for the Irish Census of 1881
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)The time is rapidly approaching when the next decennial Census for the United Kingdom will be taken. Next April year, one more record of the state of the Kingdom will be added to those already existing: the Acts of Parliament ... -
Discharged prisoners' aid societies
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The great principle of Beccaria, ?that it is better to prevent crimes than to punish them? and on which is built our very successful Reformatory and Industrial School system, has been sadly neglected in Ireland in regard ... -
The nationalization of the land
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)The questions raised in Mr. George's book, Progress and Poverty, are so many and so large that to discuss them adequately would require a book at least as large as his own. 1 propose to deal this evening only with the main ... -
The re-afforesting of Ireland?the advantages and disadvantages
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)The re afforesting of Ireland being at present before the public as one of the grand schemes for the regeneration of Ireland, I propose bringing this subject before you to-night, and pointing out what seem to me to be, ... -
On the law reforms which have been successfully advocated by the Trades Union Congress, and the further law reforms which they now seek
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)When I learned that the Trades Union Congress, which has held twelve annual meetings, had fixed its next meeting to be held in Dublin, in September?thus visiting Ireland for the first time, I made some inquiries as to their ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: thirty sixth session ? 1882/83
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Free trade and Irish manufactures
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)The movement which is at present on foot for the encouragement of native manufacturing industry in Ireland has been condemned by many economists as opposed to what are called free trade principles. It has been said that ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: thirty eighth session ? 1884/85
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On the cultivation of tobacco in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1885)Some years ago the cultivation of tobacco in Ireland was advocated in the press and in parliament, and the question: What was the hindrance to the cultivation of the plant in this country? was put to the Chancellor of the ... -
Railway rates
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)A great deal of discontent is felt by traders, and by the general public, with the charges made by railway companies for the carriage of goods and passengers. It is alleged: That trade is injured by excessive rates, which ... -
Address at the opening of the thirty-fourth session of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)It can scarcely be hoped that the address you are about to hear will secure approval for the Council in their choice of President, for it will deal with only one of the three branches into which the business of the Society ... -
Arrangements for putting out fires in Dublin city and the townships of Drumcondra, Clontarf, Kilmainham, Pembroke, Rathmines, Blackrock, and Kingstown
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)The last great improvement in the arrangements for putting out fires in Dublin arose from the burning of Kildare-street Club in 1860; and some papers read at this Society, and the discussion thence arising, contributed to ... -
Address at the close of the Thirty-sixth Session of the Society
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)In addressing this Society, as I do for the first time, I feel myself weighted with a double difficulty. For not only am I deeply conscious of the honour done me by election to the chair which I occupy, but I am painfully ... -
Report of Council at opening of Thirty-fourth Session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The Council joined with the Town Council of Dublin in inviting the Social Science Congress to meet in Dublin in 1881, and the invitation has been accepted. The Council invite the co-operation of all the residents in Dublin ... -
Notice of the books and pamphlets bequeathed by Sir Thomas Larcom to the society
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)My object in this paper is to bring before your notice the bequest of books and pamphlets which this Society has recently received under the will of the late Major-General the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Larcom. The collection ... -
Our foreign commerce and free trade policy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)In February, 1878,1 read a paper before this Society in defence of our national policy of free trade, which was at that time assailed with some vehemence as the cause of the then prevailing mercantile depression. Since ... -
Some statistics and researches on the Poor Removal question, with special reference to the removal of persons of Irish birth from Scotland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)In the course of some researches upon the ages of persons of Irish birth in England and Scotland, I arrived at some figures which place in a strong point of view the very large proportion of persons liable to be affected ...
