JSSISI: 1879 to 1886, Vol. VIII, Parts LVI to LXIII: Recent submissions
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A Swiss land credit bank
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1885)The demand for legislation to facilitate the lending of public money on small plots of land in Ireland?a demand which is beginning to be made for England also?and the repeated failures to give effect to this demand in ... -
Suggestions for remedying defects in international marriage as affects women married in the United Kingdom to foreigners
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)At a public meeting in the Mansion House, in this city, Miss Ada M. Leigh, the Lady President of the Association of Mission Homes for the protection of Englishwomen and Children, at 17 Avenue Wagram, Paris, called attention ... -
On the extent to which the principles advocated in ?Bentham's Letters on Usury? have still to be adopted in the laws of England and of foreign countries
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)The abolition of the Usury Laws may, by many, be considered complete in England, and to have removed them and their demerits out of the class of subjects of practical importance which this Society is accustomed to discuss. ... -
The law of marriage in its bearing on morality
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)Both Church and State have the highest reasons for endeavouring to regulate the laws and customs regarding marriage as it is so intimately connected with morality and property. In all Christian times those who had the ... -
Some considerations on the working of the Artizans? Dwellings Acts, as illustrated in the case of the Coombe area, Dublin
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)The Coombe area being the first with which the Corporation of Dublin proceeded to deal under the Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Acts, 38 & 39 Vic. cap. 36 (1875), and 40 & 41 Vic. cap. 122, Local (1877); ... -
On the reorganization of Irish education departments and the appointment of a minister of education
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)The control of matters educational in Ireland is divided between the following nine boards:?the National Board, the Intermediate Board, the Endowed Schools' Board, Erasmus Smith's Schools' Board, the Incorporated Society, ... -
The Eric fines of ancient Irish law
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)It is strange how very little attention is devoted by Irishmen to the study of the ancient laws of their country. These have been translated from the original Gaelic after the life-long labour of such distinguished scholars ... -
On the assimilation of the law in England, Scotland, and Ireland, as to the care of lunatics and their property
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)As the care of lunatics is a work of state charity, which is necessarily free from all religious or political bias, it is difficult to understand why there should be any difference in the laws on the subject in the Three ... -
A few observations on the present position of the Irish national school teachers, as regards salaries, pensions, and residences
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)On the 5th March, 1875, Mr. Charles Henry Meldon, M.P. for Kildare, delivered a speech in the House of Commons which contains most valuable information regarding the then position of the Irish National School teachers. The ... -
On the anomalous differences in the poor-laws of Ireland and of England: an address to the Trades Union Congress
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)Asked to address you on the anomalous differences in the Poor-laws of Ireland and England, my first inquiry was, what views had been adopted by the parliamentary committee of your Congress on the subject of equal laws for ... -
Bimetallism as a policy for the British Empire
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)In this paper I take as proved the Bullionist theory; that is to say, the doctrine that the circulating medium ought to possess intrinsic value. All who admit this admit further that the circulating medium ?or rather the ... -
Statistics on points raised by Mrs. O?Connell?s and Miss Smedley's papers
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)As I withdrew a Poor-law paper on the list to make way for Miss Smedley's paper, I wish to give only so much of the statistics as bears on the points raised by Mrs. O'Connell's and Miss Smedley's papers. -
The manufactures of the United States
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)The census of the United States is of a much more comprehensive character than that of the United Kingdom. In addition to the collection of facts regarding the people, it includes an inquiry into the wealth of the nation. ... -
Impediments to savings from cost and trouble to the poor of proving wills
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The desirability of encouraging thrifty habits amongst our people is now fully acknowledged; and the admirable arrangements of the Post Office department afford ample facilities for the investment of small savings, for ... -
Primary education: with a review of the German, Irish, and English systems
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)In the paper which I would lay before the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society this evening, I have endeavoured to bring under consideration the more important questions which occupy the attention of statesmen and all ... -
Report of Council on Mr. Jephson's suggestions as to Census for 1881
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The Council of this Society have had under their consideration the suggestions in the enclosed paper of Mr. Henry Jephson, read at the Society's meeting on the 17th inst., as to the importance of including in the census ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
