Browsing JSSISI: 1894 to 1900, Vol. X, Parts LXXIV to LXXX by Subject "314.15"
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Address at the opening of the Forty-eighth Session.
(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 ... -
The application of co-operation in the congested district
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1900)On thinking over my subject I have found it necessary to preface that part of my remarks which deals directly with the application of co-operation to the Congested Districts, with a consideration of the people themselves ... -
Bimetallism
(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 ... -
The coming changes in Irish local government
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1898)The changes in Local Government proposed to be made by the Local Government (Ireland) Bill, which is now on the eve of the Committee stage, aptly illustrates some economic and social theories which may well be discussed ... -
Compulsory purchase as a substitute for the revision of judicial rents
(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 ... -
Crime, and how best to attack it.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1897)This short paper is designed to start discussion, but, of course, not to deal in any sense exhaustively with a very difficult subject. Mr. Webb presents one aspect of that subject, most pleasant no doubt for kindly ... -
Economic development in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1900)In laying before the members of this Society some considerations regarding the very wide subject of "Economic Development in Ireland," I have in view the situation created by the Agriculture and Technical Instruction ... -
Fifty years of Irish agriculture
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1899)In 1847, the year of the famine, the Government first collected for the information of Parliament very ample Irish Agricultural Statistics. Similar returns have been annually published ever since. The result of these ... -
Fifty-first session 1897/1898
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The financial crisis in the United States, 1893-4
(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. ... -
The financial relations of Great Britain and Ireland: the expenditure account.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1897)The majority Report of the Financial Relations Commission finds: "That whilst the actual tax revenue of Ireland is about one-eleventh of that cf Great Britain, the relative taxable capacity of Ireland is very much ... -
The fluctuating character of modern employment.
(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 ... -
Foreign legislation on behalf of destitute and neglected children
(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 ... -
Introductory address
(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, ... -
Irish Private Bill Legislation: a tribunal
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1899)The demands which the Irish Local Government Bill made upon the time of Parliament last session rendered it impossible to expect that the Government could introduce the bill for the reform of Irish Private Bill Legislation, ... -
Land transfer and local registration of title.
(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 ... -
The liability of married women to income tax
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1899)I desire to call attention to the anomalous state of the law as regards the liability of married women to Income Tax. The statute which regulates this liability is Section 45 of the Income Tax act of 1842(5 & 6 Viet., ... -
Neglected children and neglectful parents
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1898)It seems to me quite impossible for those who do not, or who cannot, keep out of sight of the poorer classes, to resist the sad importunity with which the facts of life in our back streets and tenements for ever plead ... -
The new local bodies and the new Department of Agriculture and Technical Education and the development of the resources of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1900)Two classes of bodies have been lately created by the present Government. One class by the Local Government Act of 1898, and the other by the Act which established the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction ... -
Our present and future water supply
(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 ...
