Browsing JSSISI: 1885 to 1893, Vol. IX, Parts LXIV to LXXIII by Title
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Address at the opening of the fortieth session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1887)The Statistical Society has now been in existence for thirty-nine years. In its youth it enjoyed a much larger share of popularity than has latterly been extended to it. This was due in a great degree to the fact, that at ... -
Amalgamation: being some considerations on proposed changes in the relations of the legal professions in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1886)Not seldom are complaints made of the unwillingness of a legislature to enact reforms until compelled to do so by agitation. In some cases this procrastination has its advantages. Instances indeed are not unknown in ... -
American railways
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1886)It will be my aim in this paper, first to exhibit a summary view of the railways as a whole; second, to show from an examination of the accounts of some leading lines, the peculiarities of the financial circumstances ... -
Appendix to Vol. IX Part LXXIII
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Banking reserves and currency reform
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1891)The best test of the merits of a monetary or credit system is the fact that its operations attract no notice. As long as all goes well, people in general are quite content with efficient practical working, and, very ... -
The case for bimetallism
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1891)The question which this essay is an attempt to answer, may be thus expressed :?What would be the effect on prices, and on the financial and industrial interests of the world in general, if the leading nations of the ... -
Child mortality in Dublin
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1889)The high rate of mortality among young children as compared with the general death-rate for the whole population has attracted the attention of all vital statisticians since accurate records of births and deaths have ... -
Co-operative agricultural societies in Germany
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1892)A few days ago Mr. Balfour, in a remarkable speech, announced his conviction that the cure for the evils at present afflicting agricultural industry in these countries, might be found in co-operation. As a preliminary ... -
The congested districts
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1891)In certain parts of the great province of Connaught, principally in the Counties of Mayo and Galway, and in a few spots of Donegal, in the north, are comparatively closely-populated districts where the inhabitants living ... -
The congested districts of Ireland and how to deal with them
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1887)The phrase congested districts has acquired in the discussion of Irish problems an almost technical meaning. By the congested districts I understand to be meant those parts of the country which are unable, at least in their ... -
Considerations as to an extended scheme of land purchase
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1887)There appears to be a general concensus of opinion that the Irish land question can only be finally settled by an extension, on a wide scale, of the system of land purchase inaugurated by Lord Ashbourne's Act, and by the ... -
Continental land banks and land registers
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1887)The Statistical Society allowed me on a former occasion to give an account of a Swiss State Land Credit Bank, from the operations of which it seemed to me some useful lessons might be learned. The question of making loans ... -
Decimal money
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1888)Nearly every civilized country has already adopted decimalisation, and it is strange to say, that the United Kingdom, and some of its colonies and dependencies, enjoy, with the Ottoman Empire, the proud distinction of ... -
A description of the system of registration and transfer of land titles and securities in the Canton Vaud
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1890)The introduction of a Land Transfer Bill for England, and of a Bill to establish Local Registries of Title in Ireland, mark a distinct advance in public opinion on this important question, which, though often the subject ... -
The drought of 1887, and some of its effects on Irish agriculture
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1888)The exceptional character of the summer of the year 1887, and its marked influence on the crops on my farm at Fassaroe, Bray, Co. Wicklow, induced me two months ago to make enquiries, and collect information from other ... -
The drought of 1887, and some of its effects on Irish agriculture: maps
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1888)Maps showing distribution of rainfall in Ireland -
Emigration and immigration
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1888)Alike in old and new countries there has been, during the last few years, a remarkable revival of interest in the long debated and apparently exhausted problems of emigration and colonization. Many important European ... -
Forestry in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1889)In view of the proposed extension of the Land Purchase Acts, the question of the protection and development of Forestry in Ireland is one of very great importance and interest to the entire community. The effect of ... -
Free trade and protection with reference to Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1886)Some recent conversations on Free Trade and Protection with reference to Ireland, have suggested to me to bring before our Society the following short consideration of the subject. Within the next few years the question ... -
The fusion of the two branches of the legal profession
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1892)I have gone into the history of the question at some length in order to show that the proposition advanced by Mr. Murphy, namely, that it scarcely needs proof that the distinction between the two branches of the legal ...
