http://hdl.handle.net/2262/4770 2013-06-19T21:31:06Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/4018 Title: School attendance in Ireland Author: Ryan, Frederick W. Abstract: In this paper your attention is drawn to the Irish Education Act of 1892, upon the efficient working of which must positively depend—as I hope to confirm by figures—the general success of Irish Elementary Education as a whole; and as an indirect consequence the future character and industrial development of the nation. It is proposed, therefore, to examine the nature of School Attendance required by law, and to note the lines along which is carried the principle of compulsion embodied in the Act in question. Description: Read April 26th, 1912 1912-01-01T00:25:21Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/3940 Title: A memoir of the late John Kells Ingram, LL.D. - sometime President of the Society Author: Falkiner, C. Litton Abstract: In May last, at the first of our meetings which followed Dr. Ingram's lamented death, the President paid a just tribute to the memory of "one of our most distinguished members," and to "the great work which he did for Ireland in this Society." But the observations then made were, necessarily, confined to a brief and passing reference; for the occasion was not appropriate to such a considered notice of Dr. Ingram's career, and particularly of his connection with the Statistical Society, as it has long been our custom to devote to the commemoration of those who have been most conspicuously associated with the Society's work. Since the name of Dr. Ingram must always be held in reverent remembrance amongst us, not merely as one of the most eminent in the list of our Presidents, but as that of, perhaps, the most distinguished authority on economics who has ever adorned the roll of our Society, it has been thought desirable that something in the nature of a formal memoir should be prepared for our Journal. It is hardly needful to remark that, in consenting to become the medium for such a tribute as we desire to pay to Dr. Ingram's memory, I have no pretension whatever to speak with authority on the value or permanence of those weighty contributions to the history of social and economic science by which his name is likely to be most enduringly remembered. Were the passing of such judgment the proper task of the writer of this memorial notice, the Society must have looked elsewhere for its author. But I conceive my function to be the more limited one of combining with a brief record of the main facts of Dr. Ingram's life, an account of his work in this Society, and of the part he took in founding it, together with a statement of the purpose and substance of those important contributions with which, from time to time, he enriched our Journal. In endeavouring to comply with the wishes of our Council, it is impossible to find a more apt precedent for the form of such a notice than that which was supplied by Dr. Ingram himself in his memoir of the late Dr. Neilson Hancock; a memoir which, though it defies imitation in the justness of its proportions, and the lucidity of its exposition, may fittingly become the model for all our future attempts to appraise the work of our worthiest members. Description: Read 1st November, 1907. 1912-01-01T00:25:21Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/3939 Title: Facilities for investing in consols Author: Stanuell, Charles A. Abstract: It is not my intention to go into the question of the National Debt as regards its origin; I propose to devote my time this evening to considering the manner in which dealings with the Consolidated Debt of Great Britain and Ireland are carried out, as regards purchase, payment of dividends, and sale. Description: Read December 6th, 1907 1912-01-01T00:25:21Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/3938 Title: A plea for Irish mines and minerals, under an Irish board, and for preparation of a mining survey Author: Geoghegan, Hanbury C. Abstract: The first step is to have a careful mining survey made, for hitherto none has been attempted; the geological survey, about which more hereafter, was made from surface indications only, and from such mining information or traditions as the officers couid collect. For the preparation of a mining survey it is essential to make expensive boring operations, in such localities as may be advised by our mining experts, and for this diamond-drills and a large sum of money is necessary. Description: Read Friday, February 7th, 1908 1912-01-01T00:25:21Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/3927 Title: Two centuries of Irish agriculture - a statistical retrospect, 1672-1905 Author: Chart, D.A. Abstract: In economic, as in political problems, a knowledge of the past is essential to the proper understanding of the present. At this time, therefore, when so many Irishmen are hoping and striving for a general industrial revival, it may not be inappropriate to trace the fortunes of our oldest, most important, and perhaps, most successful industry—that connected with the land. Description: Read, March 20th, 1908. 1912-01-01T00:25:21Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/3926 Title: The economics of "industrial revival" in Ireland Author: Oldham, C.H. Abstract: I am anxious in this paper to promote an amicable discussion upon the question whether the people who are promoting the Industrial Development are "doing just what will have the opposite effect to that which they intend" Description: Read, Friday, 8th May, 1008 1912-01-01T00:25:21Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/3925 Title: The external commerce of Ireland Author: Samuels, Arthur W. Abstract: On the 12th September, 1906, was issued for the first time a Report on the Trade in Imports and Exports at Irish Ports. It has been followed in 1907 and 1908 by similar Reports, and we have at length materials in an authoritative form for estimating the extent of the external trade of Ireland. The value of the information contained in these Reports cannot be overstated. Description: Read 30th November, 1908 1912-01-01T00:25:21Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/3924 Title: Methods of registering and estimating the population of Ireland before 1864 Author: Wood, Herbert Abstract: It was suggested to me that a paper on the means of proof of age available in this country would prove of interest to the members of this Society, and I have taken the opportunity of giving a slight sketch of such methods of ascertaining the population of Ireland, and its increase or decrease, as existed before 1864, or in other words, to examine in what way the functions of the Registrar General were performed before that year. Description: Read, 18th December, 1908. 1912-01-01T00:25:21Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/3923 Title: Remedies for overcrowding in the city of Dublin Author: Lawson, William Abstract: This question is no new one; it has been discussed in and out of this Society; much has been done by private and public effort to remedy the overcrowding which admittedly exists in the city of Dublin, but the latest official information which we have, and to which I shall presently refer, shows that the problem is not yet solved, and that much remains to be done to solve the problem, if, indeed, it can be solved at all. Description: Read January 22nd, 1909. 1912-01-01T00:25:21Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/3922 Title: The duty of the state towards the pauper children of Ireland Author: Millin, S. Shannon Abstract: It is not without many misgivings that I approach the subject of pauperism, on which is dependent to so large an extent the social prosperity of the Irish people. The subject has been discussed in various aspects from the platform of the Statistical Society, since its foundation in 1847, memorable in the history of Ireland as the year when the misery which accompanied the Potato Famine was at its greatest height. Many legislative enactments have since been passed to grapple with the great social problem-of the relation of the community to the poor, and some of the beneficent changes which have been effected in Westminster, as to the mode of administering relief, were previously discussed and advocated here, in the calmer atmosphere of philosophical inquiry. Much still remains to be done towards the solution of the problem, and without attempting to approach the larger subject, I shall direct my remarks, more especially, to what I consider its most important branch, viz., the duty of the State towards the pauper children. Description: Read 19th February, 1909 1912-01-01T00:25:21Z