JSSISI: 1919 to 1930, Vol. XIV, Sessions 73rd to 83rd: Recent submissions
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The first census of the Irish Free State and its importance to the country
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1927)On the 15th March, 1911, about three weeks before the Census day of 1911, I had the privilege and honour of reading a paper before this Society entitled "The Development of the Irish Census and its National Importance." ... -
Unemployment: its causes and their remedies
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1927)Is unemployment inevitable? If so, are there any remedies which will mitigate its evil effect? These are the questions which are on the lips of those who are compelled to face one of the most vital of the many problems with ... -
Trade union organisation in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1927)It would seem that the Society confesses to a certain ignorance concerning Trade Unions in Ireland, though they number in their membership some hundreds of thousands of our fellow-countrymen. This paper has been ... -
The probation of offenders
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1927)The probation officer must bring home to every child a feeling of the directing force of probation. The old type of loose and lifeless supervision which passed under the name of probation?permitting a boy to go for ... -
Methods of sampling applied to Irish statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)As the Society is aware, during the recent troubles the system of complete enumeration of agricultural statistics broke down in this country, and since then it has been necessary to rely on estimates derived from a ... -
"Credit Power and Democracy," by Major C. H. Douglas, considered
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)Bishop Berkeley had the reputation in his own day of having written a book?The Principles of Human Knowledge? which no one could understand. 'His labours', said a contemporary philosopher of some eminence, 'are of little ... -
The housing problem in Ireland and Great Britain and the essentials of its solution
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)The aim of the present paper is to focus public opinion on the Housing Question, to press its urgency, and to appeal for individual and collective effort to aid in utilising fully the liberal provisions made by the ... -
Currency problems old and new
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)There must be an extraordinary complexity in a system which turns so many that study it off the right path and leaves them floundering in quagmires of absurdities. The persistency with which these attacks are made, the ... -
The interpretation of Irish statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)The Interpretation of Irish Statistics is chosen as the subject of this Address because I have wished to draw attention to the main object of our Society. I have also the hope that by illustrations I may succeed in ... -
The evolution of the diploma of public health
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)The paper which I have the privilege of presenting to this Society was read, with the approval of the Right Hon. President and Council, at the State Medicine Section of the Academy of Medicine of Ireland in January of ... -
Insanity and crime
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)In July, 1922 Lord Birkenhead, the then Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, appointed a committee of distinguished jurists "To consider and report what changes, if any, are desirable in the existing law, practice and ... -
Poor Law reform
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)The aim of this paper is not to present a complete and elaborate scheme of Poor Law Reform?a transcendent task?but to indicate a few general and leading principles which, it is submitted, ought not to be lost sight of ... -
Some perplexities in regard to the agricultural statistics of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)Certainly, if we leave aside political issues for the moment and consider economic problems only, then the capacity of a people for self-government can be pretty well measured by their capacity to handle statistical ... -
The Law of Property Act, 1922
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1923)I propose to give you this afternoon a brief and very imperfect sketch of the changes made in the English Law of Real Property by the Law of Property Act, 1922. When I tell you that the Act traverses the whole field of ... -
The development of tillage in Ireland during the World War
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Clean milk
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1923)It may seem to some that an explanation should be made in bringing this subject of Clean Milk before -the members of this Society. It is, however, in my opinion, a subject well worthy of discussion, for surely the health ... -
Poverty problems for a patriot parliament
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1923)When planning the submission of certain suggestions as to Irish social legislation, designed to combat the evil of poverty, I conjectured that when the time arrived for doing so the battle flags would have been furled ... -
The psychology of labour
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1923)To enter fully into such a subject as the Psychology of Labour would require a volume; I merely desire, therefore, to put forward a few leading facts which I hope may help us to a closer study of the subject and hence ... -
Land transfer, registration of deeds and title
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1923)The aim of this paper is to outline the history and characteristics of the two systems [land titles and land deeds], showing the advantages as well as the drawbacks of each with the view to the improvement of both, that ... -
Some American views on penology
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1923)I have the honour this evening to lay before you some considerations on certain aspects of prison reform and "penology," which I had the opportunity of examining when engaged as a Member of the recent Indian Prisons ...
