Browsing JSSISI: 1879 to 1886, Vol. VIII, Parts LVI to LXIII by Date of Publication
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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 ... -
Comparison between boarding-out and pauper schools
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)After I had considered in an address to the Statistical Society the question of the proper mode of dealing with the children whom destitution has brought into the care of the state, this paper was sent to me by the late ... -
On the report of the Select Committee appointed ?to enquire and report whether any and what steps ought to be taken to simplify the title to land, and to facilitate the transfer thereof, and to prevent frauds on purchasers and mortgagees of land?, and on the first report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed ?to enquire into the law relating to the registration of deeds and assurances in Ireland?.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)To simplify the title to land and facilitate the transfer thereof must always be a subject of much interest in this country, where so large a proportion of the wealth of the inhabitants consists of land. I will therefore ... -
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. -
Bright Clauses of the Irish Land Act
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)I may at the outset plainly state that I do not intend to travel over the whole ground occupied by the subject which I have chosen for my text. I take it that all reasonable people and a large number of the unreasonable ... -
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 ... -
Suggestions for the Irish Census of 1881
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)The time is rapidly approaching when the next decennial Census for the United Kingdom will be taken. Next April year, one more record of the state of the Kingdom will be added to those already existing: the Acts of Parliament ... -
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 ... -
The substitution of stock for other forms of local indebtedness
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The substitution of debenture stock or consolidated stock for other forms of local indebtedness has already occupied the attention of this Society. I find that in July, 1871, Doctor Neilson Hancock contributed to its ... -
Our foreign commerce and free trade policy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)In February, 1878,1 read a paper before this Society in defence of our national policy of free trade, which was at that time assailed with some vehemence as the cause of the then prevailing mercantile depression. Since ... -
Discharged prisoners' aid societies
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The great principle of Beccaria, ?that it is better to prevent crimes than to punish them? and on which is built our very successful Reformatory and Industrial School system, has been sadly neglected in Ireland in regard ... -
Report of Council on Mr. Jephson's suggestions as to Census for 1881
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The Council of this Society have had under their consideration the suggestions in the enclosed paper of Mr. Henry Jephson, read at the Society's meeting on the 17th inst., as to the importance of including in the census ... -
Irish linen laws and proposed amendments thereof
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The custom, largely adopted in many manufacturing districts, particularly in the north of Ireland, of manufacturers in the linen and damask trade giving out to weavers the materials for webs to be woven by them in their ... -
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 ... -
Some grievances of jurors
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)There is an old theory in the political and social system of these islands that a man when called upon to discharge a public duty must do so at his own charges. But, like all theories, it has undergone considerable ... -
Report of Council at opening of Thirty-fourth Session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The Council joined with the Town Council of Dublin in inviting the Social Science Congress to meet in Dublin in 1881, and the invitation has been accepted. The Council invite the co-operation of all the residents in Dublin ... -
Notice of the books and pamphlets bequeathed by Sir Thomas Larcom to the society
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)My object in this paper is to bring before your notice the bequest of books and pamphlets which this Society has recently received under the will of the late Major-General the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Larcom. The collection ... -
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, ... -
Impediments to savings from cost and trouble to the poor of proving wills
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)The desirability of encouraging thrifty habits amongst our people is now fully acknowledged; and the admirable arrangements of the Post Office department afford ample facilities for the investment of small savings, for ...