JSSISI: 1885 to 1893, Vol. IX, Parts LXIV to LXXIII : Recent submissions

Now showing items 21-40 of 66

    • A suggestion for the fusion of the two branches of the legal professions 

      Murphy, Joseph John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1892)
      It scarcely needs proof that the distinction between the two branches of the legal profession?between barrister and solicitor?is purely artificial, and incapable of justification on principles of ordinary common sense. ...

    • Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: forty-fourth session 1890/1891 

      SSISI (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1891)

    • President's address 

      Grimshaw, Thomas Wrigley (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1890)
      The Agricultural Statistics of Ireland were, as you are aware, from my last year's address, first systematically collected in the year 1847, immediately after the famine. They were, like all new undertakings, not as ...

    • Banking reserves and currency reform 

      Bastable, C. F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1891)
      The best test of the merits of a monetary or credit system is the fact that its operations attract no notice. As long as all goes well, people in general are quite content with efficient practical working, and, very ...

    • The case for bimetallism 

      Murphy, Joseph John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1891)
      The question which this essay is an attempt to answer, may be thus expressed :?What would be the effect on prices, and on the financial and industrial interests of the world in general, if the leading nations of the ...

    • Co-operative agricultural societies in Germany 

      Finlay, T.A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1892)
      A few days ago Mr. Balfour, in a remarkable speech, announced his conviction that the cure for the evils at present afflicting agricultural industry in these countries, might be found in co-operation. As a preliminary ...

    • Irish progress during the past ten years, 1881-1890 

      Grimshaw, Thomas Wrigley (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1891)
      We have just come to the end of the decade, 1881-90; the census has been taken, we have available nearly all the information as to progress during the year 1890, which is capable of statistical treatment, and accordingly ...

    • Our industrial and reformatory school systems in relation to the poor 

      Daly, E.D. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1891)
      My purpose in bringing it before you can only be to refresh our minds on a subject of importance, apt to be somewhat overlooked in the rush of politics around us. It is a subject on which a great deal of learning can ...

    • The Prussian agrarian reforms of the present century: their method and extent 

      Bailey, William F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1890)
      Much misunderstanding exists, even among those who have made land reform a special study, respecting the principles and methods of the Prussian agrarian legislation of the present century. The prevailing belief is that ...

    • The Registration of Assurances Bill 

      Maguire, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1891)
      "The Registration of Assurances Bill" of the Attorney-General, Mr. Madden, is the complement of his "Registration of Titles Bill"; combined they cover the entire field of land transfer in Ireland. This paper, then, is ...

    • The congested districts 

      Kelly, Richard J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1891)
      In certain parts of the great province of Connaught, principally in the Counties of Mayo and Galway, and in a few spots of Donegal, in the north, are comparatively closely-populated districts where the inhabitants living ...

    • German socialism 

      Finlay, T.A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1890)
      The progress of that movement which we know by the somewhat ill-defined term, Socialism, is the most interesting, as it is the most important phenomenon of our present economic and social condition. During the past half ...

    • The woods, forests, turf-bogs, and foreshores of Ireland: opportunity for, and advisibility of, establishing government management and protection 

      Bailey, William F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1890)
      In the paper on "Forestry in Ireland," read by me before the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, in July, 1889, I described at some length the forestry regulations of the principal European countries, and ...

    • Local registration of title 

      Lawson, William (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1890)
      The object of this paper is to call attention to the leading provisions of the Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Bill, which was introduced in the House of Commons late last session by Mr. Madden, M.P., the present ...

    • A description of the system of registration and transfer of land titles and securities in the Canton Vaud 

      O'Brien, Murrough (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1890)
      The introduction of a Land Transfer Bill for England, and of a Bill to establish Local Registries of Title in Ireland, mark a distinct advance in public opinion on this important question, which, though often the subject ...

    • Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: forty-second session 1888/1889 

      SSISI (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1889)

    • Sliding scales for rent - value and fair rents - annual and capital value 

      O'Brien, Murrough (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1888)
      The principle of varying judicial rents according to prices, introduced by the Land Law Act of 1887, is a startling innovation in our system of land tenure. To me it appears a retrogressive step?not on the ground that ...

    • Memoir of the late William Neilson Hancock, LL.D., Q.C 

      Ingram, John Kells (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1889)
      The President, in his address at the opening of the present session, referred in a few apt and sympathetic words to the loss we had sustained in the death, of our distinguished member, Dr. Hancock. But he and others ...

    • A statistical survey of Ireland, from 1840 to 1888. 

      Grimshaw, Thomas Wrigley (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1889)
      An examination of the table will show that it naturally divides itself into several principal parts, namely:? I.?Population, Vital Statistics, Area and Valuation. II.?Agriculture. III.?Trade and Manufactures. IV.?Capital, ...

    • The proposed Technical Instruction Bill, and the science and art department 

      Coffey, George (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1889)
      Much dissatisfaction has been expressed from time to time with the Science and Art, or, as it is generally called, South Kensington system, and in the report of the late Commission on Technical Instruction, the department ...