http://hdl.handle.net/2262/9200 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:44:32 GMT 2013-06-20T04:44:32Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5658 Title: Financial results on sixty-one West Cork farms in 1940-'41 Author: Murphy, M. Abstract: In this paper a summary is given of the financial results achieved on 61 farms in a West Cork creamery district (about nine miles west of Clonakilty), during the year ended 30th April, 1941. In presenting the summary, tables have been extensively employed, so as to facilitate the examination and interpretation of the data available; and comment has been restricted to what appeared to be the minimum necessary to the clarification of the tables. Description: Read on Friday, 24th April, 1942 Wed, 31 Dec 1941 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5658 1941-12-31T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5520 Title: The changing distribution of population in Kerry and West Cork Author: Freeman, T. W. Abstract: Many of the picturesque areas in the peninsulas known to tourists have lost forty per cent or more of their 1891 population. The loss is so striking that a very small area would remain as a Congested District if re-assessed today on the same basis as in 1891. In Donegal, approximately half the area congested in 1891 is still congested to-day. In this paper the whole of Kerry is considered, with the four rural districts of West Cork (Bantry, Castletown, Skibbereen and Skull), which were taken over by the Congested Districts Board in 1909, when the scope of their work was extended to include part of the richer hinterland of the poverty-stricken western regions. Geographically, there is no line of separation between West Cork and Kerry and the whole region gives a compact area forming the extreme south-west of Ireland south of the Shannon. Description: Read on Friday, 30th January, 1942 Wed, 31 Dec 1941 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5520 1941-12-31T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5478 Title: Calendar reform Author: Eason, E.K. Abstract: The subject of calendar reform became practical politics about twenty years ago, certainly when the League of Nations' Committee sat in the years 1923-1926. From that time till 1937 two forms of calendar were in the field, one with thirteen months and the other with twelve. It is necessary that grave and weighty reasons should be put forward for demanding a change, in particular for requesting the use of ONE eight-day week at the end of each year and another at the end of June in each leap year. This innovation creates a universal religious issue. At the same time, it is desirable that the festivals of Easter and Whitsuntide should be fixed. For both these purposes a Church Council will, sooner or later, have to be summoned. Description: Read on Friday, l9th December, 1941 Wed, 31 Dec 1941 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5478 1941-12-31T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5458 Title: Irish regional life tables Author: Barry, Colm A. Abstract: There are three recognised measures of the mortality of a population, known as the crude death-rate, the standardised death-rate and the life table death-rate. Comparisons of the crude death-rate as between one people and another or one year and another, give no information, without further knowledge or further inquiry, as to whether one people is healthier than another or whether health conditions have improved over a period. The reason is that the crude death-rate is chiefly influenced by the age distribution of the people. In 1936, 45 per cent of all deaths in Éire were of persons aged 65 years and over, and infant mortality is also very high as compared with mortality at most other ages. Differences, therefore, in the birth-rate or in the proportion of old persons among the population will greatly affect the crude death-rate. Description: Read on Friday, 3lst October, 1941 Wed, 31 Dec 1941 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5458 1941-12-31T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5457 Title: The capitalisation of Irish agriculture Author: Johnston, Joseph Abstract: The value of a farm from a strictly agricultural point of view is a capitalisation of the income which a purchaser, whose principal occupation is farming, might hope to make in virtue of his ownership as such. In making his valuation the purchaser considers the farm as a whole— land, buildings, fences, situation, water supply, etc., as well as rates and annuity charges, and does not consciously assign a specific value, positive or negative, to each item. All the elements of value which analysis may distinguish are in fact inseparable parts of a common whole. Nevertheless for our purposes it is necessary to analyse and distinguish. Description: Read on Friday, 21th February, 1942 Wed, 31 Dec 1941 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5457 1941-12-31T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5440 Title: The social income of Eire, 1938-40 Author: Duncan, G. A. Abstract: A paper read before the Society on Thursday, 26th October, 1939 carried the investigation up to 1937, with provisional estimates for 1938 and conjectures for 1939. Of the seven heads into which monetary income was there divided, five (fisheries, distribution, personal service, housing and income from abroad) must provisionally be taken at the figures established for 1937-38, since the limits of our additional knowledge and the scope of this present note do not admit radical revision. In the case both of agriculture and industry (accounting in 1937 for almost exactly half the total social income), where variations are more directly calculable, the continued steep upward movement of prices has necessitated an upward revision of the previous tentative figures. Tue, 31 Dec 1940 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5440 1940-12-31T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5438 Title: An analysis giving a comparison of national expenditure, sources of revenue, and the debt, for the years 1929/30 and 1939/40 Author: Eason, J. C. M. Abstract: The Census of Population for 1936 discloses a transfer of employment from Agriculture to Industry, and an increase in the number of those engaged in subsidiary activities required to meet the increased commercial activity, particularly in urban areas, in transport, etc. Against this background it is useful to review the details which follow. The financial figures for 1939/40 are the latest available and, except in connection with the Army Vote, where the influence of the war is noticeable, they are not affected by any special factor which makes the comparison unsuitable. The trend of expenditure has been upwards (except in the case of Pensions). The increase is distributed amongst all Votes. Description: Read on Friday, 23rd May 1941 Tue, 31 Dec 1940 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5438 1940-12-31T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5437 Title: Irish population prospects considered from the viewpoint of reproduction rates Author: Geary, R. C. Abstract: Estimates of future population render explicit the assumption with regard to population statistics, which is implicit in the use of most current statistics, that the tendencies indicated are applicable now and in the near or remote future, though they may actually relate to some time back. My previous estimates have been criticised because they related to the Twenty-Six Counties. The present series also relate to this area, principally because the exact data required for the Six Counties are not available. In order to justify the assumptions on which two of the three series of estimates are based, it will be necessary to consider the recent trend in births, deaths and migration. Description: Read on Friday, 28th March, 1941 Tue, 31 Dec 1940 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5437 1940-12-31T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5198 Title: The sampling referendum in the service of popular government Author: Hackett, Felix E. Abstract: The attitude which may be taken towards the method of sampling referenda as a measure of public opinion will depend mainly on two factors; the trust reposed on the technique of scientific sampling and the degree of acceptance of the democratic machinery of government. Public opinion, scientific sampling and democracy are the three threads entwining the wide range of topics discussed in this paper. In the forefront is Dr. Gallup, who founded the American Institute of Public Opinion and who has secured an important status in the United States for this technique of measuring public opinion. It will, however, seem inexplicable how this has been achieved in such a short time unless it is recognised that the force wielded by public opinion in that country is "a real force impalpable as the wind yet a force all are trying to discover and nearly all to obey" and that there "public opinion is more than anywhere else a ruling power". (Brycc.) A brief description of the working of the British Institute of Public Opinion and the new qualitative mode of social investigation, Mass-Observation, established about the same time is followed by a short note on the War Time Social Survey based on the limited information available. It is evident that a mass of social and political data both interesting and valuable is now being collected in Great Britain. Description: Read on Friday, 28th February, 1941 Tue, 31 Dec 1940 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5198 1940-12-31T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5197 Title: Broadcast discussion on “unemployment” Author: Lyon, Stanley; Glenavy, Lord; Johnson, Thomas; Ó Buachalla, Liam; Coyne, E. J. Abstract: The first discussion by members of the Society, by way of broadcast, was on the population problem; the subject for this evening is "Unemployment." There is no necessity for me to enlarge on all that this single word connotes. In our discussion tonight we mean those who, being normally dependent on wage earnings, are genuinely seeking work and are unable to obtain it. The problem is one of long standing and affects the lives and happiness of a substantial section of the community. The backward or the less civilised countries of the world seem to have little unemployment as we know it. With them the standard of living is comparatively low whereas in what are regarded as the more advanced and highly civilised countries, in which there is a high standard of living, unemployment is a serious problem, the solution for which so far has been elusive. Agricultural countries seem to suffer less from its effects than industrial countries. Description: Broadcast on 9th May 1940 Mon, 01 Jan 1940 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5197 1940-01-01T00:00:00Z