http://hdl.handle.net/2262/4767 2013-06-19T13:52:39Z 2013-06-19T13:52:39Z Stanuell, Charles A. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/4469 2010-06-03T15:55:46Z 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Weights and measures after the war Author: Stanuell, Charles A. Abstract: In my judgment the United Kingdom will be successful in the present awful struggle, but the country will suffer great injury to many trades and manufactures. We shall also be liable for enormous debts contracted in carrying out the greatest and most expensive war which has ever yet desolated the world. In fact our resources as regards population, producing power, and wealth will have been diminished, while at the same time we shall have incurred fresh and enormous liabilities. The National Debt will be at least ten times as great as it was before the war, perhaps twenty times as much, and the nation will have to bear the strain of raising the interest upon this enormous debt while our trade and commerce will have been seriously damaged or impaired by the general disturbance caused by the war in all commercial matters. We must contemplate the rebuilding of a half ruined Empire, and to do this we have not only to restore our former business, but to develop it still further. This, in my judgment, can only be done by increasing our trade, our commerce, our general sources of income as derived from our own and other countries, and at the same time removing, so far as we can do so, all possible hindrances to the spread of our trade with other nations. Description: Read June 8, 1917

1917-01-01T00:00:00Z O'Connell, John Robert http://hdl.handle.net/2262/4310 2012-02-06T10:47:03Z 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Trades boards as a means of adjusting wages disputes and promoting trade interests Author: O'Connell, John Robert Abstract: In a time like the present, when the differences between Capital and Labour appear to be more than ordinarily acute, it seems opportune to invite the attention of this Society to those Acts of Parliament, some of which have now been in force for some ten years, which seem to suggest the possibility of one method of drawing closer together those whose interest in an industry is that of an employer and those whose interest is that of a worker. So far as I am aware, this Society has up to the present not had under its consideration the Trade Boards Act, 1909 (9 Edwd. VII., Ch. 22), the Trade Boards Provisional Orders Confirmation Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. V., Ch. 67). or the Trade Boards Act, 1918 (8 & 9 George: V., Ch. 32), which constitute a code of legislation designed to obviate trade disputes in respect of wages by setting up Boards consisting partly of representatives of employers and partly of representatives of workers, together with certain independent persons appointed by the Ministry of Labour, who are empowered to fix minimum wages for all persons employed in the various trades to which the Acts apply. Description: Read May 30th, 1919,

1919-01-01T00:00:00Z Chart, D.A. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/4309 2010-06-03T15:55:49Z 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The study of Irish economic history Author: Chart, D.A. Abstract: The subject of this evening's paper is not one which has frequently attracted the attention of members of this society. This is regrettable in many ways. Often a proper treatment of disease is impossible without an adequate history of the patient. Economic problems cannot be solved unless economic history is studied. Yet Irish economic history, in the full sense of the word, is still unwritten. A few pioneers have dealt with special periods, or with isolated aspects of the subject. But the main work still remains untouched, awaiting perhaps some Lecky of the future. Perhaps in the meantime it may be of interest to indicate briefly what the study of this somewhat neglected subject might reveal, and in how many ways it might help those whose efforts aim at the amelioration of the conditions of life in this country. Description: Read May 2nd, 1919

1919-01-01T00:00:00Z Dickie, Alfred http://hdl.handle.net/2262/4308 2010-06-03T15:55:39Z 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: State insurance and mother's pensions Author: Dickie, Alfred Abstract: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, the subject that I wish to bring before you this evening is one of great interest to the public in general, and especially to a Society like this. From the statistics supplied from your department, Mr. President, it appears that for the last quarter the deaths have exceeded the births by a considerable amount. If this continues it will be disastrous to the country. Now, we may not be able to increase the birth-rate, as that depends on economic and other causes which we cannot by any action on our part effect. But we can and ought to take all possible measures to ensure that every child born into this world has a proper chance of growing up and growing into an efficient citizen. Description: Read April 14th, 1919

1919-01-01T00:00:00Z Kelly, Richard J. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/4307 2010-06-03T15:55:39Z 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Irish banks and amalgamation Author: Kelly, Richard J. Abstract: British and with them, of course, Irish Banks are now face to face with an unprecedented and, for them, very anxious condition of things, and British and Irish Banking may in a sense be thought to be nearing a crisis. Their present, and so far successful, methods of doing business may be said to be on their trial. To provide for the changed financial situation many expedients will have to be resorted to, many new plans adopted, a different system set up, perhaps. Description: Read March 21st, 1919

1919-01-01T00:00:00Z Cox, Michael F. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/4306 2010-06-03T15:55:39Z 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: A Ministry of Public Health for Ireland Author: Cox, Michael F. Abstract: Never, perhaps, so much as now has it been fully realised that the most important and most enduring wealth of a State depends upon the health and strength, the strong arms and trained brains of a people. Men of the highest grade of health—of grade "A"—are to be specially sought for, to guard the well-being and the safety of their country. This is recognised by all, from the Prime Minister downwards. Recognising the importance of the preservation of the health and strength of the people, a Ministry of Health is about to be provided for England, and no doubt for Wales and Scotland, whilst Ireland is excluded from the benefits to be conferred on the sister countries. Description: Read February 28th, 1919

1919-01-01T00:00:00Z Oldham, C.H. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/4305 2010-06-03T15:55:49Z 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Changes in Irish exports (second paper) Author: Oldham, C.H. Abstract: In a previous Paper (read to this Society on April 26th, 1918) I analysed the figures for the Exports at Irish Ports which have been published by the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland for the twelve years 1904 to 1915 inclusive. I grouped together those items in the annual Return which were products of the same industry or employment; and I compared the value-changes which have occurred in the principal exporting trades during the twelve years. Since then the Department has issued the Return for the year 1916. Description: Read Friday, February 14th, 1919

1919-01-01T00:00:00Z Millin, S. Shannon http://hdl.handle.net/2262/4304 2010-06-03T15:55:49Z 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Our society: its aims and achievements (1847-1919) Author: Millin, S. Shannon Abstract: 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 The Statistical Society of Dublin." The office bearers then elected were:—President: The Most Rev. Richard Whately, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin; Vice-Presidents: Captain T. A. Larcom, E.E., and Mountiford Longfield, Q.C., LL.D.; Hon. Secretaries: James A. Lawson, LLB., and W. Neilson Hancock, LL.B.; and Hon. Treasurer: Stewart Blacker. The object of the Society was "to promote the study of Statistics and Economical Knowledge" by means of written communications to be read at meetings of the Society, and it was expressly stipulated that "no communication shall be received by the Society involving topics likely to produce discussions connected with religious differences or party politics". Description: Read on 9th January, 1919

1919-01-01T00:00:00Z Thompson, William J. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/4303 2010-06-03T15:55:46Z 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Fifty years vital statistics in Ireland Author: Thompson, William J. Abstract: With the permission and approval of the Council I am bringing forward for the Presidential Address the subject of Irish Vital Statistics, and as the General Register Office was established for the registration of births and deaths in 1864 the unique opportunity is presented of reviewing the subject for over half a century. Description: Read on Friday Evening, 6th December, 1918,

1919-01-01T00:00:00Z Brown, Sparkhall http://hdl.handle.net/2262/4302 2010-06-03T15:55:39Z 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The limitations of school Author: Brown, Sparkhall Abstract: During the past two years two papers on Educational topics have been read to this Society, one by Mr. Williamson entitled "Post-War Functions of Commercial Education," and the other by Mr. Ryan on "The Preparation of National School Pupils for Technical Training and Industrial Life." My excuse for bringing the subject again under the notice of the Society is, first that both these papers dealt with special aspects of Education, whereas I propose to treat the subject more as a whole, and, second, that at the present moment the subject of education is one of especial interest. Description: Read Friday May 24th, 1918

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