JSSISI: 1876 to 1879, Vol. VII, Parts L to LV
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On the report of the Irish Lunacy Inquiry Commissioners, and the policy of extending the English law for the protection of neglected lunatics to Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)I need offer no apology for bringing this subject before the Society at the present time. It is three years since, in consequence of an invitation from a great English philanthropist (Sir Charles E. Trevelyan) to Mr. ... -
The present position and prospects of political economy: being the introductory address delivered in the Section of Economic Science and Statistics of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)Had I been called upon at any other time to preside over this section, I should have followed the example of most of my predecessors, in selecting as the subject of the discourse which it is usual to deliver from this ... -
A description of some leases based on the principle of parliamentary tenant-right
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)Sir George Campbell, in an admirable pamphlet published in June, 1869, points out with great clearness the de facto state of land tenure in Ireland. He shows that although the legal conditions were at that time substantially ... -
Some statistics and researches on the Poor Removal question, with special reference to the removal of persons of Irish birth from Scotland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)In the course of some researches upon the ages of persons of Irish birth in England and Scotland, I arrived at some figures which place in a strong point of view the very large proportion of persons liable to be affected ... -
Application of copyhold enfranchisement to long leases in Ireland; assimilation of chattel and freehold succession, and simplification of transfer of land
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)The Report of the Committee of the House of Commons, on the working of the Bright Clauses of the Irish Land Act of 1870, has brought out in a glaring manner some anomalies and defects in the tenure of land in Ireland. The ...