Browsing JSSISI: 1894 to 1900, Vol. X, Parts LXXIV to LXXX by Date of Publication

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  • Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: forty-seventh session 1893/1894 

    SSISI (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1894)

  • The financial crisis in the United States, 1893-4 

    Battersby, T. S. F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1894)
    The year 1893 in America stands unique in that it presents an unrivalled record of failures of solvent banks, corporations, firms, and individuals in a country having unsurpassed facilities for production and distribution. ...

  • Our present and future water supply 

    Walker, John A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1894)
    Public attention has been directed to the water supply to the city and townships during the past year more than has been the case since the foundation of the Vartry system. It seemed to require some such event as the ...

  • The Ulster tenant-right custom: its origin, characteristic and position under the Land Acts. 

    Bailey, William F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1894)
    Few subjects connected with Irish land have been the cause of more discussion than the Tenant-right Custom of Ulster. For many years before 1870 a controversy was carried on with respect to the attributes of the custom, ...

  • Compulsory purchase as a substitute for the revision of judicial rents 

    Edge, J. H. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1894)
    A question has been frequently mooted, which must soon be determined, namely, what course the government will take in respect of judicial rents, which will shortly be legally capable of revision under the 8th section ...

  • Bimetallism 

    Barbour, David (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1895)
    I have to apologise for bringing before such a Society as that which I now address a paper which I cannot help feeling deals inadequately with the great question of our future standard of value. To many of you my remarks ...

  • Prevention and elimination of disease, insanity, drunkenness and crime - a suggestion 

    Osborne, Henry (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1895)
    Under the present social system marriage is permitted to persons quite unfit, physically or mentally, to produce sound and healthy offspring; say, rather, quite sure to produce offspring that are sickly and unsound. If ...

  • Land transfer and local registration of title. 

    Maguire, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1895)
    The Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891, to which, at the request of the President and Council, I have the honour to invite the society's attention, is an important measure affecting the transfer of land in ...

  • Address at the opening of the Forty-eighth Session. 

    Dodd, William H. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1895)
    The Society, as it now exists, is the combination of two societies, one for the investigation of statistics and the study of economic science, the other for the purpose of making social inquiries, mainly with a view to ...

  • Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: forty-eighth session 1894/1895 

    SSISI (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1895)

  • Introductory address 

    Dodd, William H. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1896)
    In the address which I had the honour to deliver as President of this society, at the opening of the last session, I took occasion to review the history and work of the society during the period, nearly half a century, ...

  • Foreign legislation on behalf of destitute and neglected children 

    Barrett, Rosa M. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1896)
    In a paper which I had the honour of reading some time ago before this Society, I gave some details as to the laws of various countries (especially America) on behalf of destitute children. I feel that some apology is ...

  • The fluctuating character of modern employment. 

    Oldham, C.H. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1896)
    I could not but feel how much Political Economy is unfairly discredited by the fact that the authoritative text-books within the reach of the ordinary reader are quite out-of-date upon many modern problems of great ...

  • The want of industrial and practical education in Irish national schools. 

    Dawson, Charles (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1896)
    There is no doubt that the Irish people are behind the rest of the world in industries, and there is a concensus of opinion that the reason is the unindustrial and impractical character of our primary education. With ...

  • A suggestion for the removal of taxes on litigation in Ireland as a condition of the reduction of the judicial establishment 

    Samuels, Arthur W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1896)
    The rumour that the Treasury officials have determined to promote a Bill for the reduction of the judicial staff in Ireland has been gaining consistency. A general claque of approbation of the proposal has been raised ...

  • Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: forty-ninth session 1895/1896 

    SSISI; SSISI (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1896)

  • The valuation of the city of Dublin 

    Dawson, Charles (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1897)
    As an introduction to the question of the state of the valuation of the city of Dublin, I should wish to refer briefly to the work achieved by the Municipal Corporation since the passing of the Public Health Act of ...

  • Private Bill legislation for Ireland. 

    Samuels, Arthur W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1897)
    The necessity for a reform of Private Bill procedure is so universally acknowledged, and the English, Scotch, and Irish press have, within the last few weeks, so emphatically reiterated the demand frequently put forward ...

  • The struggle between the State and the drunkard 

    Daly, E.D. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1897)
    No one can be competent to discuss the Drink Question unless he has thought over it sufficiently to realize how complicated the subject necessarily is. It is intimately interwoven with details of economic laws which ...

  • The progress of co-operation 

    Finlay, T.A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1897)
    Everyone is familiar with the advantages of co-operation in industrial and commercial pursuits. What all treatises of Political Economy tell us as to the benefits of the Organisation of Industry and the Division of ...