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Bright Clauses of the Irish Land Act
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)
I may at the outset plainly state that I do not intend to travel over the whole ground occupied by the subject which I have chosen for my text. I take it that all reasonable people and a large number of the unreasonable ...
On the assimilation of the law in England, Scotland, and Ireland, as to the care of lunatics and their property
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)
As the care of lunatics is a work of state charity, which is necessarily free from all religious or political bias, it is difficult to understand why there should be any difference in the laws on the subject in the Three ...
On the reorganization of Irish education departments and the appointment of a minister of education
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)
The control of matters educational in Ireland is divided between the following nine boards:?the National Board, the Intermediate Board, the Endowed Schools' Board, Erasmus Smith's Schools' Board, the Incorporated Society, ...
Suggestions for the Irish Census of 1881
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)
The time is rapidly approaching when the next decennial Census for the United Kingdom will be taken. Next April year, one more record of the state of the Kingdom will be added to those already existing: the Acts of Parliament ...
On the economic theory of rent
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
In a recent number of the Contemporary Review, Professor Bonamy Price, under the title of ?What is Rent?? gave an explanation of rent, its ?nature? and ?character?. He limited his explanation to agricultural rent, which ...
Obituary notice of the late Alexander Thom, Esq. J. P., Queen's printer in Ireland, a vice-president of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)
Since the last meeting of this Society, we have lost one of its original members, Mr. Alexander Thom, who did more to popularize statistics in Ireland and place before the world the real condition of the country than any ...
Railway rates
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)
A great deal of discontent is felt by traders, and by the general public, with the charges made by railway companies for the carriage of goods and passengers. It is alleged: That trade is injured by excessive rates, which ...
On the Scotch branch of the Poor Removal question
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
In the report of the Select Committee on Poor Removal of 1879 there is a very marked difference in the way in which the Scotch and English branch of the question was dealt with.
The future of American agricultural competition
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1883)
In this paper I shall endeavour to bring before the members of the Statistical Society some figures, which seem to me to throw considerable light on the vexed question of the extent to which farming in the United Kingdom ...
Statistics of the county infirmaries, Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)
I venture to bring the subject of the County Infirmaries of Ireland before your Society, from a desire to place on record the large amount of medical and surgical relief afforded to the poor in Ireland by these institutions, ...