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    • Obituary 

      SSISI (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1931)
      During the last few years the Society has lost through death no fewer than six of its most active and distinguished members, Professor C. H. Oldham who died in 1926, Sir William Thompson and Dr. Ninian Falkiner who died ...
    • Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society Of Ireland: eighty-fourth session 1930/1931 

      SSISI (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1931)
    • Decline of the country town 

      Duncan, G. A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1932)
      This paper does not pretend to be anything more than a statistical pursuit of certain queries suggested by Table B in the Preliminary Report of the Census of 1926.
    • Factory inspection 

      Stafford, Brigid (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1931)
      The Labour Chapter of the Treaty of Versailles, which made provision for the establishment of the International Labour Organisation with the view of securing international agreement as to humane conditions of labour, ...
    • Legal aid for poor persons 

      Molony, Thomas F., Sir (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1931)
      At the annual meeting of the English Bar held on the 11th February, 1928, a discussion arose on the question of legal aid to poor persons, and the Attorney-General, Sir Douglas Hogg (now Lord Hailsham) said, in winding ...
    • The currency system of the Irish Free State 

      Brennan, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1931)
      At the time of the establishment of the Irish Free State the only effective currency of full legal tender existing in the country was the British currency note. Gold coin of the United Kingdom, although of full legal ...
    • A plea for winter dairying 

      Johnston, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1931)
      Countrymen are familiar with the practice of holding out a carrot to an obstinate type of quadruped in order to induce it to go where it would otherwise be unwilling to go. When it gets there it may possibly get some ...
    • An analysis shewing the objects of expenditure and the sources of revenue during the financial years 1924-25 to 1929-30 

      Eason, J. C. M. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1931)
      In this paper I have endeavoured to place on record in a concise manner the nature of the Expenditure by the Irish Free State during recent years, and in particular the items in the Expenditure which led to a deficiency ...