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  • Child life as a national asset 

    Millin, S. Shannon (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1917)
    If those charitably inclined people who encourage begging in the streets, by giving an odd copper to a poorly clad child, would only realise the truth contained in Victor Hugo's words, much mischief might be averted. ...
  • The duty of the state towards the pauper children of Ireland 

    Millin, S. Shannon (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)
    It is not without many misgivings that I approach the subject of pauperism, on which is dependent to so large an extent the social prosperity of the Irish people. The subject has been discussed in various aspects from ...
  • Our society: its aims and achievements (1847-1919) 

    Millin, S. Shannon (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1919)
    On the 22nd November, 1847, a number of gentlemen met in the Royal Irish Academy, Grafton Street,when it was unanimously resolved, on the motion of Captain T. A. Larcom, R.E.: "That a Society be established to be called ...
  • Slums: a sociological retrospect of the city of Dublin 

    Millin, S. Shannon (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1914)
    If I required an excuse for my paper, I would quote the words of the Chief Secretary Right Hon. A. Birrell, M.P., in reply to a deputation which recently waited on him in reference to the Dublin Housing Problem:?"As ...