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  • School attendance in Ireland 

    Ryan, Frederick W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)
    In this paper your attention is drawn to the Irish Education Act of 1892, upon the efficient working of which must positively depend?as I hope to confirm by figures?the general success of Irish Elementary Education as ...
  • A memoir of the late John Kells Ingram, LL.D. - sometime President of the Society 

    Falkiner, C. Litton (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)
    In May last, at the first of our meetings which followed Dr. Ingram's lamented death, the President paid a just tribute to the memory of "one of our most distinguished members," and to "the great work which he did for ...
  • Facilities for investing in consols 

    Stanuell, Charles A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)
    It is not my intention to go into the question of the National Debt as regards its origin; I propose to devote my time this evening to considering the manner in which dealings with the Consolidated Debt of Great Britain ...
  • A plea for Irish mines and minerals, under an Irish board, and for preparation of a mining survey 

    Geoghegan, Hanbury C. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)
    The first step is to have a careful mining survey made, for hitherto none has been attempted; the geological survey, about which more hereafter, was made from surface indications only, and from such mining information ...
  • Two centuries of Irish agriculture - a statistical retrospect, 1672-1905 

    Chart, D.A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)
    In economic, as in political problems, a knowledge of the past is essential to the proper understanding of the present. At this time, therefore, when so many Irishmen are hoping and striving for a general industrial ...