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The depositors in the Tipperary Bank, and the cost of proving wills and distributing small assets in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)
On the 16th of February, 1856, occurred one of the most serious calamities in Irish affairs in the past half century?the failure of the Tipperary Bank, consequent on the frauds of John Sadlier. In the Annals of our Time ...
Some further information as to migratory labourers from Mayo to England, and as to importance of limiting law taxes and law charges in proceedings affecting small holders of land
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)
The great interest which has been taken in the facts I brought forward at the last meeting as to the migratory labourers, induced me to continue my researches. The points to which I specially directed my attention were: ...
On the equal importance of the education, poor-law, cheap law for small holders, and land questions, at the present crisis
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)
In an article in the Fortnightly Review for January, I called attention to the case of the migratory labourers in Mayo, and their sufferings from non-employment in England last year, as one branch of the present crisis to ...
On the anomalous differences in the poor-laws of Ireland and of England: an address to the Trades Union Congress
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
Asked to address you on the anomalous differences in the Poor-laws of Ireland and England, my first inquiry was, what views had been adopted by the parliamentary committee of your Congress on the subject of equal laws for ...
On the cost and delay in obtaining loans on land and the high rate of interest charged to tenants for loans
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
The failure of the potato crop in Ireland, in 1845, which led to Sir Robert Peel's cabinet adopting and carrying Free Trade, was followed by the still more extensive failure in 1846. This brought on a paralysis of credit, ...
Statistics on points raised by Mrs. O?Connell?s and Miss Smedley's papers
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)
As I withdrew a Poor-law paper on the list to make way for Miss Smedley's paper, I wish to give only so much of the statistics as bears on the points raised by Mrs. O'Connell's and Miss Smedley's papers.
Suggestions for remedying defects in international marriage as affects women married in the United Kingdom to foreigners
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)
At a public meeting in the Mansion House, in this city, Miss Ada M. Leigh, the Lady President of the Association of Mission Homes for the protection of Englishwomen and Children, at 17 Avenue Wagram, Paris, called attention ...
Arrangements for putting out fires in Dublin city and the townships of Drumcondra, Clontarf, Kilmainham, Pembroke, Rathmines, Blackrock, and Kingstown
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)
The last great improvement in the arrangements for putting out fires in Dublin arose from the burning of Kildare-street Club in 1860; and some papers read at this Society, and the discussion thence arising, contributed to ...
On the assimilation of the law in England, Scotland, and Ireland, as to the care of lunatics and their property
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)
As the care of lunatics is a work of state charity, which is necessarily free from all religious or political bias, it is difficult to understand why there should be any difference in the laws on the subject in the Three ...
Obituary notice of the late Alexander Thom, Esq. J. P., Queen's printer in Ireland, a vice-president of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)
Since the last meeting of this Society, we have lost one of its original members, Mr. Alexander Thom, who did more to popularize statistics in Ireland and place before the world the real condition of the country than any ...