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    • The joint-stock companies in the court of equity 

      Falkiner, F. R. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1870)
      My desire this evening is to present in panorama a few pictures that have already passed before the spectator in the Court of Chancery; then to point out some innate vices in the principles on which the companies so seen ...
    • On the importance of (1) a larger infusion of the industrial element into our system of education, and of (2) an adaptation to Ireland of the day industrial clauses of Lord Sandon's act of 1876 

      Falkiner, F. R. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1877)
      On the 16th March in the present year there was a debate in the House of Commons, of interest to Ireland more deep than pleasant. In a speech admirable for ability and earnest feeling, Mr. O'Shaughnessy, M.P. for Limerick, ...
    • Our habitual criminals 

      Falkiner, F. R. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)
      In seeking to take counsel with you here to-night on the grave problem our habitual criminals present, I have been most desirous not merely to iterate deplorings I have perhaps too often vainly made elsewhere, nor to suggest ...
    • Report on homes of the poor 

      Falkiner, F. R. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)
      The state of the dwellings of the working and poorer population has been now so fully recognized as one of the most potent causes of all that is deplorable in the sanitary and social conditions of this city, that we do not ...