Browsing JSSISI: 1864 to 1868, Vol. IV, Parts XXVI to XXXIV by Date of Publication
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Report of the Council at the opening of the Seventeenth Session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)If in all else the condition of this Society at the commencement of the session offer abundant matter for congratulation, the loss present to the mind of every member, which the death of its late venerated president, ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: seventeenth session 1863/1864: first, second and third meetings
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On the necessity of a state provision for the education of the deaf and dumb, the blind, and the imbecile
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)Your attention has already been called to the "necessity of a state provision for the education of the Deaf and Dumb of Ireland." My object on the present occasion is to call your attention again to this subject, and ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: seventeenth session 1864: fourth to seventh meetings
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Obituary notice of the late Most Rev. Richard Whately, D.D. Lord Archbishop of Dublin, President of the Society
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)Since we last assembled together for the annual election of officers, a vacancy has occurred by the death of Archbishop Whately, who for sixteen years presided over this Society. I have been, requested by the Council ... -
A comparison between the English and Irish Poor Laws with respect to the conditions of relief
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)I do not propose in this paper to examine the question, on which so much may be said, of the policy of a more liberal outdoor relief in the present condition of Ireland. My object is simply to state, as correctly as I ... -
Free-trade: abolition of customs and excise duties; and a sketch of a simpler and better mode of raising a Revenue
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)Among those many useful topics to which I have alluded, the discussion of Free-trade, and its partial adoption by us, and other nations, has been attended with many beneficial results. It is my main object in this paper ... -
Ireland in 1864
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)In January, 1862,I had the honour of reading before the Society a short paper called Historical Statistics of Ireland. In it I said, "Ireland is decreasing in wealth and population." The proposition was earnestly ... -
The sanitary state of Dublin
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)In this paper, for the incompleteness of which I shall at once apologize, I propose to sketch briefly, and as far as my observations have extended, the sanitary state of our city, being convinced that much disease, and ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: seventeenth session 1864: eighth meeting
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The debt and taxation of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)My attention has been directed to the "Report of the Special Committee of the Municipal Council of Dublin on the state of the Public Accounts between Ireland and Great Britain," and I design to lay before you the results ... -
Considerations on the state of Ireland, an address delivered at the opening of the seventeenth session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)Called by the desire of your Council to address you at the opening of a new session, and thus led to consider more closely the condition of Ireland, I could not but be impressed by the grave character of the crisis. ... -
On criminal statistics; especially with reference to population education and distress in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)In the session of this Society in 1860-61,I availed myself of the admirably arranged returns of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, to bring before the Society some of the aspects of crime in this city, especially in regard ... -
Abstract of a paper on "Railway reform"
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1865)The paper was intended to show the powers vested in the nation of purchasing up the railways of the United Kingdom constructed since 1844, and the arguments which have been advanced to induce the public to exercise those powers. -
Abstract of paper 'On the dwellings of working men in cities, and the efforts that have been made to improve them'
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1865)I have undertaken to bring forward this subject, not that I hope to state anything which shall be new, but because the subject appears one which should no longer be overlooked by this Society. -
On strikes with respect to hours of labour
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1865)In old times, when business of all kinds was carried on in small establishments, the hours of labour were regulated by the hours kept by the employer and his family, who generally resided at the place of business, and ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: eighteenth session, opening to fourth meetings - 1864/65
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Abstract of a paper on "Railway reform, or the policy of the purchase and management by the British Government of the railways of the United Kingdom"
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1865)Several passages were quoted from a valuable treatise by Mr. William Galt, of London, printed originally for private circulation, but now about to be published, which advocates the policy of having all the railways of the ... -
Observations on the law relating to the qualification and selection of jurors, with suggestions for its amendment
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1865)I propose in this paper briefly to direct attention to the expediency and necessity of some amendment being made in the law with reference to the qualification and selection of jurors; and, with that view, to submit some ...