JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847-: Recent submissions
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On the equal importance of the education, poor-law, cheap law for small holders, and land questions, at the present crisis
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)In an article in the Fortnightly Review for January, I called attention to the case of the migratory labourers in Mayo, and their sufferings from non-employment in England last year, as one branch of the present crisis to ... -
On the impolicy of a revival of protection as a remedy for the present depression
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)With the now extended experience we have had of the vast benefits of free-trade, with the generally increased prosperity of the empire consequent thereon, with the augmented population of the sister kingdoms, and the ... -
Report of the council read at the opening of the seventh session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1854)We now enter on the commencement of a new session, and it may not be uninteresting to the members of our society to take a brief survey of the labours of the past. -
On the law relating to the realization of judgments and decrees, with special reference to judgments and decrees against tenant-farmers
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)When an advocate has carried a case to a successful termination in court, and the judgment or decree has been obtained, the anxious client often asks: ?How am I to get it realized?? He is put off jokingly with the answer??That ... -
Impediments to the prompt carrying out of some of the principles conceded by Parliament on the Irish land question
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)In this paper I do not propose to deal with any principles as applied to the Irish land question, except those which have already been conceded by Parliament. With respect to one branch of the land question?the encouragement ... -
Statistics of poor relief in England and Wales for the year 1851 compiled from the fourth annual report of the Poor Law Board
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1853)The expenditure for the relief of the poor in England and Wales during the year ended Lady-day, 1851, amounted to #4,962,704, being a decrease of #432,318, or 8 per cent, as compared with the expenditure of the preceding ... -
On (1) the value of Adam Smith's ?Wealth of Nations?, as a text book at the present day; and (2) the history of his life as an illustration of the importance of endowments for higher education and for research
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)As this Society took its origin in part from the section of Economic Science and Statistics of the British Association, it occurred to me that it would be fitting to close the session with an economic paper, showing that ... -
Some further information as to migratory labourers from Mayo to England, and as to importance of limiting law taxes and law charges in proceedings affecting small holders of land
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)The great interest which has been taken in the facts I brought forward at the last meeting as to the migratory labourers, induced me to continue my researches. The points to which I specially directed my attention were: ... -
Irish statute law reform
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)At the meeting of the British Association which was held in this city in August last, I had the honour of bringing before the Association the important subject of Irish legislation. In the paper that I read on that occasion, ... -
On the use of education and training in the treatment of the insane in public lunatic asylums
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)Pinel, who, in 1792, did so much to advance the disuse of mechanical restraint, and the substitution in its stead of moral influence and of kindness, has, with other valuable principles enunciated by him in reference to ... -
On the best means of raising the supplies for a war expenditure
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1854)The question respecting the raising of the supplies for a war expenditure, by what means they can be most efficiently obtained, and with the least inconvenience to the community, has been of late years allowed to fall ... -
Comparison between boarding-out and pauper schools
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)After I had considered in an address to the Statistical Society the question of the proper mode of dealing with the children whom destitution has brought into the care of the state, this paper was sent to me by the late ... -
On the importance of raising Ireland to the level of England and Scotland in the matters of industrial schools and compulsory education
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)The principle of compulsory education has a two-fold aspect: (1) It secures the education of the neglected and the helpless, and provides an organised means by which their education shall be provided and paid for. (2) When ... -
Suggestions for a bill to regulate sales of property
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)There is no legal topic more closely connected with economic science than sales of property: therefore I trust that a short paper on the subject may not be deemed out of place in this section of the British Association. ... -
Report of the Council at the opening of the Thirty-third Session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)At the commencement of the Thirty-third Session, Council have to submit the following report of the proceedings of the Society during the past year -
On the valuation of real property for taxation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)Thus in Ireland there are two different principles embodied in the Valuation Acts?one for the valuation of land, the other for the valuation of buildings; and the latter is the principle upon which the valuation of all ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: eighteenth session, fifth to eight meetings -1865
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: thirty second session ? 1878/79
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: thirty third session ? 1879/80
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On the agricultural statistics of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1854)Here is a vast mass of information, and it is surely worth while to endeavour to elicit the truths contained in it; and while this remains to be done, none of us need complain of a deficiency of materials for valuable ...
