RSS 1.0JSSISI: 1868 to 1870, Vol. V, Parts XXV to XXXIX
Recent Submissions
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Address at the opening of the Twenty-second Session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)It has been the custom at the commencement of our annual sessions to direct attention to laws passed during the year, likely to affect our social or industrial progress, and to consider the remaining impediments to that ... -
Should the Local Government Acts be extended to Ireland?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)In September, 1867, at the request of the Council of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, I read a paper at the Belfast Congress in answer to the question, " Should the Local Government Acts be ... -
Government purchase of railways in Ireland: how can it be accomplished?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)For the last four years the people of Ireland have had under their consideration the policy of having the Irish railways purchased by the government, and worked in future at the lowest possible tariff for the benefit of ... -
Further extension of free trade and direct taxation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)At the period I refer to, some fourteen hundred articles of commerce were subjected to duties on entering the ports of Great Britain and Ireland. And now that experience, coming to the aid of sound reasoning, has proved ... -
Marriage settlements; their social and economic effects
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)In the upper and middle ranks of society in this country the custom of settling estates is so common, that one seldom meets a person who is the absolute owner of all the property from which his income is derived. It will ... -
On the preservation of the seed of the flax plant in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)Although many treatises have been written, and many speeches delivered in this country within the last few years by landlords and agriculturists on the cultivation of flax, yet few have thought it worth their while to ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: twenty-second session 1868/1969, fourth to seventh meetings
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On the diminution of the national wealth from cattle diseases
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1870)In 1869 we had in Ireland 542,758 horses; 3,531,154 cattle; 4,141,280 sheep, and 1,157,734 pigs. The gross value of these was upwards of #50,000,000. The question I propose to submit for the consideration of the Society ... -
Tenures and land legislation in British India
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1870)The Irish land question verifies a twofold truth. Every social movement grows out of an antecedent intellectual progress, yet the results of solitary thought gain both in depth and interest by becoming instrumental to ... -
Patronage and purchase in making appointments
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1870)During the last session, Dr. Mapother read a paper before the Society which attracted a good deal of attention, especially from members of his own profession. The greater part of this communication was devoted to the ... -
Some account of the laws of the states of New York and Massachusetts regulating the business of insurance companies
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1870)When my learned friend Mr. Falkiner proposed to the Council to read a paper on the very important subject which he has selected, it was stated that arrangements existed in several of the States of the American Union for ...
