JSSISI: 1879 to 1886, Vol. VIII, Parts LVI to LXIII: Recent submissions
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The nationalization of the land
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)The questions raised in Mr. George's book, Progress and Poverty, are so many and so large that to discuss them adequately would require a book at least as large as his own. 1 propose to deal this evening only with the main ... -
The re-afforesting of Ireland?the advantages and disadvantages
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)The re afforesting of Ireland being at present before the public as one of the grand schemes for the regeneration of Ireland, I propose bringing this subject before you to-night, and pointing out what seem to me to be, ... -
On the law reforms which have been successfully advocated by the Trades Union Congress, and the further law reforms which they now seek
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)When I learned that the Trades Union Congress, which has held twelve annual meetings, had fixed its next meeting to be held in Dublin, in September?thus visiting Ireland for the first time, I made some inquiries as to their ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: thirty sixth session ? 1882/83
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Free trade and Irish manufactures
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)The movement which is at present on foot for the encouragement of native manufacturing industry in Ireland has been condemned by many economists as opposed to what are called free trade principles. It has been said that ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: thirty eighth session ? 1884/85
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On the cultivation of tobacco in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1885)Some years ago the cultivation of tobacco in Ireland was advocated in the press and in parliament, and the question: What was the hindrance to the cultivation of the plant in this country? was put to the Chancellor of the ... -
Railway rates
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)A great deal of discontent is felt by traders, and by the general public, with the charges made by railway companies for the carriage of goods and passengers. It is alleged: That trade is injured by excessive rates, which ... -
Address at the opening of the thirty-fourth session of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)It can scarcely be hoped that the address you are about to hear will secure approval for the Council in their choice of President, for it will deal with only one of the three branches into which the business of the Society ... -
Arrangements for putting out fires in Dublin city and the townships of Drumcondra, Clontarf, Kilmainham, Pembroke, Rathmines, Blackrock, and Kingstown
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)The last great improvement in the arrangements for putting out fires in Dublin arose from the burning of Kildare-street Club in 1860; and some papers read at this Society, and the discussion thence arising, contributed to ... -
Address at the close of the Thirty-sixth Session of the Society
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)In addressing this Society, as I do for the first time, I feel myself weighted with a double difficulty. For not only am I deeply conscious of the honour done me by election to the chair which I occupy, but I am painfully ... -
Report of Council at opening of Thirty-fourth Session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The Council joined with the Town Council of Dublin in inviting the Social Science Congress to meet in Dublin in 1881, and the invitation has been accepted. The Council invite the co-operation of all the residents in Dublin ... -
Notice of the books and pamphlets bequeathed by Sir Thomas Larcom to the society
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)My object in this paper is to bring before your notice the bequest of books and pamphlets which this Society has recently received under the will of the late Major-General the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Larcom. The collection ... -
Our foreign commerce and free trade policy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)In February, 1878,1 read a paper before this Society in defence of our national policy of free trade, which was at that time assailed with some vehemence as the cause of the then prevailing mercantile depression. Since ... -
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 ...
