JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847-: Recent submissions
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On the Scotch branch of the Poor Removal question
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)In the report of the Select Committee on Poor Removal of 1879 there is a very marked difference in the way in which the Scotch and English branch of the question was dealt with. -
On the need and use of village hospitals in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)During an existence of some forty years the Irish Poor-law system has undergone some modifications for the better; and the test of time, whilst demonstrating beyond question the great benefits it has conferred upon the ... -
Some considerations on the proposed alteration in the gold coinage of the United Kingdom
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)Financial questions are happily as a rule examined without reference to party feelings: it is not thought requisite to be Conservative or Liberal in such matters. The only recognised distinction is that between the expedient ... -
The depositors in the Tipperary Bank, and the cost of proving wills and distributing small assets in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)On the 16th of February, 1856, occurred one of the most serious calamities in Irish affairs in the past half century?the failure of the Tipperary Bank, consequent on the frauds of John Sadlier. In the Annals of our Time ... -
Work and the workman: an address to the Trades' Union Congress
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)I believe I am indebted for the privilege of addressing you today to the impression produced on the minds of some of your leaders by a discourse which I delivered at a recent meeting of the British Association for the ... -
Our habitual criminals
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)In seeking to take counsel with you here to-night on the grave problem our habitual criminals present, I have been most desirous not merely to iterate deplorings I have perhaps too often vainly made elsewhere, nor to suggest ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: thirty fifth session 1881/82, second to seventh meetings
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: thirty seventh session ? 1883/84
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Some grievances of jurors
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)There is an old theory in the political and social system of these islands that a man when called upon to discharge a public duty must do so at his own charges. But, like all theories, it has undergone considerable ... -
Application of copyhold enfranchisement to long leases in Ireland; assimilation of chattel and freehold succession, and simplification of transfer of land
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)The Report of the Committee of the House of Commons, on the working of the Bright Clauses of the Irish Land Act of 1870, has brought out in a glaring manner some anomalies and defects in the tenure of land in Ireland. The ... -
On the substitution for the three-fold law of succession resting on the accidents of tenure, of a three-fold law for distinct classes of (1) landed gentry, (2) manufacturers, and (3) farmers, resting on the scientific basis of the observed usages of these different classes as to wills and settlements
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)In the discussions which have taken place on the law of successions in the United Kingdom, it has been commonly assumed that there is a simple issue involved, and the only change recommended or discussed is to extend the ... -
On the economic theory of rent
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)In a recent number of the Contemporary Review, Professor Bonamy Price, under the title of ?What is Rent?? gave an explanation of rent, its ?nature? and ?character?. He limited his explanation to agricultural rent, which ... -
A common poor fund for the metropolis
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The Charity Organisation Committee of this Society, in their report in 1876, drew attention to the London system of having a common poor fund for the metropolitan unions, and suggested the desirability of extending this ... -
Observations on the Intestate Widows Acts, Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)Surprise has frequently been expressed at the fact that so little practical result has followed from the passing of the Acts of 36 & 37 Vic. c. 52, and 38 & 39 Vic. c. 27, and that the persons for whose benefit these ... -
What the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland has effected (1847-1880)
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)Without referring to the dissemination of sound statistical knowledge and a knowledge of Political Economy, and the correction of erroneous impressions, and the saving of waste of capital by discouraging such enterprises ... -
Obituary notice of the late Alexander Thom, Esq. J. P., Queen's printer in Ireland, a vice-president of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)Since the last meeting of this Society, we have lost one of its original members, Mr. Alexander Thom, who did more to popularize statistics in Ireland and place before the world the real condition of the country than any ... -
On the general principles of taxation, as illustrating the advantages of a perfect income tax
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)Gentlemen?The duties of a government, as enumerated by Adam Smith, are four in number:? 1st?To guard against foreign aggression. 2nd?To secure against internal fraud or violence. 3rd?To maintain public institutions which ... -
Bright Clauses of the Irish Land Act
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)I may at the outset plainly state that I do not intend to travel over the whole ground occupied by the subject which I have chosen for my text. I take it that all reasonable people and a large number of the unreasonable ... -
On the importance and feasibility of making special local arrangements for facilitating peasant proprietors and other small holders in dealing with their interests in land
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)Probably the greatest practical reform which the present generation has witnessed was Sir Rowland Hill's Penny Postage reform. The accommodation which the public, especially the poor and those residing in backward districts, ... -
Irish linen laws and proposed amendments thereof
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The custom, largely adopted in many manufacturing districts, particularly in the north of Ireland, of manufacturers in the linen and damask trade giving out to weavers the materials for webs to be woven by them in their ...
