http://hdl.handle.net/2262/8118 2013-05-14T17:59:03Z 2013-05-14T17:59:03Z Dawson, Charles http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7855 2010-06-03T15:55:36Z 1900-01-01T00:25:21Z

Title: The new local bodies and the new Department of Agriculture and Technical Education and the development of the resources of Ireland Author: Dawson, Charles Abstract: Two classes of bodies have been lately created by the present Government. One class by the Local Government Act of 1898, and the other by the Act which established the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction of 1899. By the first Act the government of the thirty-two counties of Ireland, and the various towns and villages they contain, has been handed over to the care of the Irish Councils elected by popular franchise. They have fiscal powers, and can levy taxes for certain purposes. It appears to me that we have here at last the opportunity afforded of practically developing the vast natural and industrial resources of the country, which, up to this, have only been written of and spoken of, but the theories of which have never been realised. This realisation is the work of the new bodies. Description: Read Tuesday, 24th April, 1900.

1900-01-01T00:25:21Z Oldham, C.H. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7854 2010-06-03T15:55:36Z 1900-01-01T00:25:21Z

Title: Economic development in Ireland Author: Oldham, C.H. Abstract: In laying before the members of this Society some considerations regarding the very wide subject of "Economic Development in Ireland," I have in view the situation created by the Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act, 1899, which comes into operation on April 1st, of the present year. The object of that Act is to stimulate economic development in Ireland. It creates a new Department of the Irish Government, which is to concern itself with two distinct purposes: to assist in developing—(1) the agriculture and fisheries, and certain, rural industries; (2) technical education applied to any form of local industry. On the one hand to enable the production of greater wealth from the lands and waters of Ireland; and, on the other hand, to improve the productive quality of Irish labour by technical education applicable to any of the industries or the circumstances of each district—these are the beneficent and truly national purposes of an Act of Parliament which makes an entirely new departure in the relations between the people and the Government of this country. Description: Read Wednesday, 14th March, 1900

1900-01-01T00:25:21Z Todhunter, Joseph http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7853 2010-06-03T15:55:33Z 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: A review of the economic and social condition of Ireland Author: Todhunter, Joseph Abstract: Several of my predecessors in the office of President have taken as the subject-matter of their addresses a review of the economic and social condition of Ireland as revealed to us in the statistics furnished by the General Register Office, and by other Departments of Government. That I should follow their example may, perhaps, be considered appropriate, seeing that the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of this Society has passed during my term of office. I do not propose to travel over the whole field of Irish statistics, nor would it be desirable that I should do so. After the Census of 1881 and of 1891, Dr. Grimshaw, the Registrar General, gave us most valuable addresses, in which he dealt with great ability, and in the most comprehensive manner with the wide range of statistical records with which his important office is conversant. I desire to draw your attention only to some particular branches of enquiry, regarding which I purpose making some observations as the figures pass under review. Description: Read Tuesday, June 27th, 1899

1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawson, William http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7852 2010-06-03T15:55:35Z 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The liability of married women to income tax Author: Lawson, William Abstract: I desire to call attention to the anomalous state of the law as regards the liability of married women to Income Tax. The statute which regulates this liability is Section 45 of the Income Tax act of 1842(5 & 6 Viet., c. 35). This statute, which applied to Great Britain only, was extended to Ireland by the Act of 1853, which imposed Income Tax on Ireland for the first time. Section 45 provides that "Any married woman acting as a sole trader by the custom of any city or place, or otherwise (or having, or being entitled to, any property or profits to her sole or separate use) shall be chargeable to such or the like duties, and in the like manner except as hereinafter is mentioned, as if she was actually sole and unmarried. Provided always that (the profits of) any married woman living with her husband (shall be deemed the profits of the husband, and the same) shall be charged in the name of the husband, and not in her name or of her trustee. Provided also that any married woman living in Great Britain separate from her husband, whether such husband shall be temporarily absent from her or from Great Britain, or otherwise, who shall receive any allowance or remittance from property out of Great Britain, shall be charged as a, feme sole if entitled thereto in her own right, and as agent of the husband if she receive the same from or through him, or from his property or on his credit." Description: Read, Tuesday, March 14th, 1899

1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Synnott, Nicholas J. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7851 2010-06-03T15:55:33Z 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Over-taxation and local expenditure in Ireland Author: Synnott, Nicholas J. Abstract: The speech delivered by Mr. Arthur Balfour in the House of Commons on the 5th July, 1898, has evidently been considered a particularly effective and unanswerable reply to the financial demands of Ireland, for it was not only greeted with a chorus of plaudits at the time, but it has since been reprinted and published in pamphlet form by the Conservative Central Office, with an appendix containing tables of figures, now appearing for the first time. As this statement of the case has received a quasi-official sanction, and to many has appeared final and conclusive, it seems the proper subject of special criticism. Nobody can deny the effectiveness of the speech as a debating effort, but as a permanent justification for the attitude of the Government it will, I venture to predict, be as ineffectual as Mr. Gladstone's plausible justification for the imposition of the Income Tax on Ireland in 1853. We may re-affirm of Mr. Balfour's speech what the author of the well-known article in the Edinburgh Review said of Mr. Gladstone's reasoning: "It is true also that he had a good debating answer - when has he not had one - but a good debating answer is one thing, and sound ground of policy quite another." The jugglery of Mr. Gladstone in dealing with the Consolidated Annuities was all sufficient for the House of Commons for the time being, and is now universally condemned; and it may be that Mr. Balfour's startling arithmetical results do not carry the argument one point further, inasmuch as they are worked out on a principle that assumes the main point at issue. Description: Read Tuesday, 27th January, 1899

1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Samuels, Arthur W. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7850 2010-06-03T15:55:33Z 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Irish Private Bill Legislation: a tribunal Author: Samuels, Arthur W. Abstract: The demands which the Irish Local Government Bill made upon the time of Parliament last session rendered it impossible to expect that the Government could introduce the bill for the reform of Irish Private Bill Legislation, which was mentioned in the Queen's Speech for the year 1897. This reform has been advocated by the Irish Press of all politics, and has been constantly and urgently demanded for now nearly half a century by the Irish public. It is one of the most crying of our needs. The industrial progress of Ireland has been blasted by the present system. Municipal improvement has been retarded and prevented. Thousands and thousands of pounds that might have been expended on sanitation, or the beautifying and improving of cities and towns, have been wasted by this deplorable and preventible expenditure. Description: Read Tuesday, 22nd November, 1898

1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Daly, E.D. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7848 2010-06-03T15:55:35Z 1897-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Crime, and how best to attack it. Author: Daly, E.D. Abstract: This short paper is designed to start discussion, but, of course, not to deal in any sense exhaustively with a very difficult subject. Mr. Webb presents one aspect of that subject, most pleasant no doubt for kindly persons to dwell on. I invite attention to another aspect, but I do not pretend that it is at all such a pleasant one - only unfortunately it is, I think, true. You will see that I venture to disagree with Mr. Webb as to the best point of attack and the best method of attacking, to be chosen in a crusade against criminals and crime. I say we should concentrate our attack by Reformatory and preventive methods on child life, and not, as at present, on adult life. I say that so far as consistent with cleanliness and health, adult prisons, especially for all shorter sentences, should be uncomfortable and not comfortable. And in saying so, I have just as much a right as Mr. Webb has to appeal to the truest feelings of humanity and kindness. It is a greater kindness and a truer humanity to make the law a steady terror to the criminal than to lavish on him kindness and culture at the necessary cost of increased suffering from criminals at large to those who try to do well. Description: Read Tuesday, 15th June, 1897

1897-01-01T00:00:00Z Webb, Alfred http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7847 2010-06-03T15:55:33Z 1897-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Sherborn Massachusetts Reformatory Prison for Women. Author: Webb, Alfred Abstract: For reasons which it is not here necessary to state, the subject of prisons, imprisonment, and prison discipline, has claimed somewhat of my attention. I would briefly direct your attention to the Massachusetts Reformatory Prison for Women, at Sherborn, not many miles outside Boston. This prison for women, managed and officered by women, is by far the most interesting and cheering institution of the kind I have ever visited. Much of the remarkable success of the establishment is doubtless due to the capacity and strong individuality of the superintendent, Mrs. Ellen C. Johnson, a lady of independent means, who some years ago was induced to accept the position she now holds. Sherborn proves what can be and what might be done, by the application of the highest principles to the reformation of the weakest and most erring of our population. During a tour of nine months abroad, I saw much that was deeply interesting, but nothing that approached in interest Sherborn Reformatory Prison for Women. Description: Read Tuesday, 15th June, 1897

1897-01-01T00:00:00Z Samuels, Arthur W. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7846 2010-06-03T15:55:32Z 1897-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The financial relations of Great Britain and Ireland: the expenditure account. Author: Samuels, Arthur W. Abstract: The majority Report of the Financial Relations Commission finds: "That whilst the actual tax revenue of Ireland is about one-eleventh of that cf Great Britain, the relative taxable capacity of Ireland is very much smaller, and is not estimated by any of us as exceeding one-twentieth." Lord Farrer, Lord Welby, and Mr. Bertram Currie report that "We find from the returns that Ireland's taxation contributed in the year 1893-1894 one-eleventh of the whole tax revenue of the United Kingdom, or £6,643.719 out of £82,439,755. If she had contributed in proportion to her suggested taxable capacity, she would have contributed not more than one-twentieth of the whole, or £4,121,987. In other words, she contributed about two and a-half millions more than she would have contributed if taxed according to what we believe to be her relative taxable capacity." Sir David Barbour reports that: "Ireland paid in 1893-1894 about two and three-quarter millions sterling more than she would have paid if the total revenue taken from her had been in proportion to her taxable capacity." Mr. Childers, in his Draft Report, states that in 1893-94 Ireland contributed "in round numbers about two and three-quarter millions in excess of that which she would have contributed if taxed according to her relative taxable capacity." The English Press, with a few notable exceptions, has urged that these findings should be put aside as "vitiated" and "one-sided." Description: Read Friday, 26th February, 1897

1897-01-01T00:00:00Z Daly, E.D. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7845 2010-06-03T15:55:52Z 1897-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The struggle between the State and the drunkard Author: Daly, E.D. Abstract: No one can be competent to discuss the Drink Question unless he has thought over it sufficiently to realize how complicated the subject necessarily is. It is intimately interwoven with details of economic laws which pursue their course regardless of preacher and moralist; and under which causes generated by want of work, vile housing, and widely spread ignorance move on to degradation and drunkenness as their effects. Even beneath such a reign of law, however, human character may struggle and be helped upwards by the influence and example of friends, neighbours, and teachers of all kinds; while State interference through Parliament can do much to repress the forces of evil and secure at least fair play for the weak and the struggling. Thus the great cause of national sobriety is open to and requires many different lines of social inquiry and action, and no paper such as this could possibly deal with all of them. Description: Read Tuesday, 23rd February, 1897

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