Browsing JSSISI: 1952 to 1957, Vol. XIX, Sessions 106th to 110th by Date of Publication
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Drifting to absolutism ?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1953)Thirty years ago, more or less, we attained our independence as a nation and proceeded to set up our own government with high hopes for our island territory both within and beyond the dividing frontier which cuts across ... -
Economic leviathans
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1953)Students of world economic affairs in the inter-war period were impressed by the extent to which the world scene was dominated by the economic policies (or impolicies) of two great economic leviathans : the U.S.A., and ... -
The International Labour Organisation - its origins and story
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1953)This is a factual statement. It does not deal with such fascinating speculations as the extent to which the I.L.O. has contributed to the Welfare State, the effect of the creation of common denominators in hours of work ... -
Accounting and economic decision
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1953)Accounts, whether prepared for shareholders or management, provide a systematic basis for determining the employment of a very large part of national resources of manpower, material and technique. I conceive that an attempt ... -
The Northern Ireland housing trust
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1953)The area of Northern Ireland is 5,238 square miles and, of the population of 1,370,000, one-third live in Belfast. Londonderry is the next largest centre with 50,000 inhabitants, and there is then a drop to between ten ... -
The economic future of Northern Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1953)In case this rather ambitious title should raise any false hopes, I must explain at once that I am not an economist or in any way qualified to deal with the subject in a professional manner. It is true that I took a Degree ... -
Agricultural education and research
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1953)In recent years agricultural education has been the subject of discussion and inquiry in many countries and much reorganisation of research, teaching and advisory services has been undertaken, in an effort to enhance the ... -
Ireland's future in the world demand on energy resources
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)The experience of two world wars has led the more advanced nations to examine the growing demand on their energy resources. In the English speaking countries, with which the economy of this country is particularly involved, ... -
A study of factors which determine the supply of pigs
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)In a free economy, where prices and production are not controlled, pig numbers move in characteristic cycles, each cycle averaging about four years in length. These pig cycles are the resultant of many physical and economic ... -
An Analysis of Irish Transport Acts, 1944 and 1950, and of the financial and operating statistics of Coras Iompair Eireann and the Great Northern Railway Co., 1945-51
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)In January, 1946, I read a paper before this Society, on the financial and operating statistics of the G.S. Rys. Co. and G.N.R. Co., 1938-44, which was preceded in May, 1938, by a similar survey of the G.S. Rys. Co. 1925-37, ... -
Reflections on comparing the Irish and English Companies Acts
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)Some time ago the Government appointed a Committee of distinguished experts to consider the amendment of Irish Company Law. You may wonder, therefore, why anyone else should read a paper about it. There are two reasons. ... -
Aspects of public expenditure in Northern Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)Northern Ireland's financial relations with the rest of the United Kingdom always arouse lively interest inside the region. Recently, however, a more urgent interest in these relations has been developing here and at the ... -
The social geography of Belfast
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)The main task of the social geographer is to analyse the relationship between social groups and their environment and to identify the regional differentiation of such relationships. In a town or city the relationships ... -
The Northern Ireland trade union movement
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)Twenty-eight years ago, this Society listened to a paper on Irish trade unionism. Then, the speaker outlined a movement that was trying to adjust itself to vital political changes that had taken place in the life of the ... -
Symposium on the economic outlook for 1954
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)We are proceeding in this symposium from the general to the particular; and my task is to discuss in the broadest terms the general economic outlook for the United Kingdom in 1954. This seems to me to involve two questions, ... -
Some precursors of Bord Na Mona
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)In 1740 William King wrote ?We live in an island almost infamous of bogs, and yet, I do not remember, that anyone has attempted much concerning them; I believe it may be of use to consider their origin; their conveniencies ... -
Some aspects of production costs in Irish agriculture, as illustrated by the cost of producing sugar beet
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)For reasons which are mainly historical but in part arise from our political evolution since 1922, very little is known of the actual costs of production and marketing on Irish farms. We have more data about the economic ... -
A comparison of the national incomes and social accounts of Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1955)In March, 1933, Dr. T. J. Kiernan published in the Economic Journal a paper on ?The National Income of the Irish Free State in 1926,? following it in June by a paper to this Society on National Expenditure. Since that time ... -
The family in Irish Census of Population statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1955)It is necessary at the outset to emphasise the experimental character of the paper, the principal object of which is to present the results of a special analysis of a sample of 6,280 families from the Census of Population ... -
The port of Dublin
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1955)My purpose this evening is to tell you something about the Port of Dublin. I shall endeavour to do this in three stages, first I shall touch briefly on its history, then I shall describe the services which are required of ...
