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  • 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 ...

  • The workhouse as a mode of relief for widows and orphans 

    Hancock, W. Neilson (Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)
    The principles on which the Irish Poor Law is to be administered for the future must be learned not from the traditions of the changes introduced in England in 1834, nor from the idle theories prevalent in Ireland in ...