Browsing JSSISI: 1919 to 1930, Vol. XIV, Sessions 73rd to 83rd by Title

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    • The clash between the individualistic and the social concept of value 

      Barrington, Thomas (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1927)
      It does not fall within the scope of this paper to review, however briefly, the respective merits of the various theories of value which have held or still hold the stage; rather is it proposed to indicate their inadequancy ...

    • Clean milk 

      Bigger, J.W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1923)
      It may seem to some that an explanation should be made in bringing this subject of Clean Milk before -the members of this Society. It is, however, in my opinion, a subject well worthy of discussion, for surely the health ...

    • "Credit Power and Democracy," by Major C. H. Douglas, considered 

      Leet, Francis L. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)
      Bishop Berkeley had the reputation in his own day of having written a book?The Principles of Human Knowledge? which no one could understand. 'His labours', said a contemporary philosopher of some eminence, 'are of little ...

    • Currency problems old and new 

      Christian, Lloyd (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)
      There must be an extraordinary complexity in a system which turns so many that study it off the right path and leaves them floundering in quagmires of absurdities. The persistency with which these attacks are made, the ...

    • The development of tillage in Ireland during the World War 

      Oldham, C.H. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1923)

    • Economic barometers 

      Busteed, John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1927)
      At the annual meeting of the Association of Chambers of Commerce of the Irish Free State this year the Chairman stated that "in the absence of adequate reliable data it is very difficult to give an accurate survey of ...

    • The evolution of the diploma of public health 

      Falkiner, Ninian M. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)
      The paper which I have the privilege of presenting to this Society was read, with the approval of the Right Hon. President and Council, at the State Medicine Section of the Academy of Medicine of Ireland in January of ...

    • The first census of the Irish Free State and its importance to the country 

      Thompson, William J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1927)
      On the 15th March, 1911, about three weeks before the Census day of 1911, I had the privilege and honour of reading a paper before this Society entitled "The Development of the Irish Census and its National Importance." ...

    • The housing problem in Ireland and Great Britain and the essentials of its solution 

      Maguire, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)
      The aim of the present paper is to focus public opinion on the Housing Question, to press its urgency, and to appeal for individual and collective effort to aid in utilising fully the liberal provisions made by the ...

    • Insanity and crime 

      Molony, Thomas F., Sir (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)
      In July, 1922 Lord Birkenhead, the then Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, appointed a committee of distinguished jurists "To consider and report what changes, if any, are desirable in the existing law, practice and ...

    • Intermediate Certificate Examination, 1928 

      Hooper, John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1929)
      The paper contained a great mass of statistical information of importance to educationists [sic]. As the paper has already been published in full in an Appendix to the Report of the Department of Education for the year ...

    • The interpretation of Irish statistics 

      Oldham, C.H. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)
      The Interpretation of Irish Statistics is chosen as the subject of this Address because I have wished to draw attention to the main object of our Society. I have also the hope that by illustrations I may succeed in ...

    • Irish intellect: its geographical distribution 

      Flinn, D. Edgar (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1920)
      It is difficult when treating of a subject of this nature to estimate who shall be deemed worthy of being included in a list of those who have contributed to Ireland's roll of fame; and I have again undertaken the task ...

    • The Irish railway problem 

      Kelly, Richard J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1920)
      Probably one of the most serious of the many important economic problems urgently calling for a settlement is the future of the Irish railways. What is to be their fate? They certainly cannot go on as they are, for ...

    • Land transfer, registration of deeds and title 

      Maguire, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1923)
      The aim of this paper is to outline the history and characteristics of the two systems [land titles and land deeds], showing the advantages as well as the drawbacks of each with the view to the improvement of both, that ...

    • The language revivals in Finland, Norway and Wales 

      Beere, Thekla J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1930)
      In the course of my duties I have had occasion to collect a considerable amount of information relating to the Language Revivals in various European countries, and as the information is not being published officially, ...

    • The Law of Property Act, 1922 

      Molony, Thomas F., Sir (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1923)
      I propose to give you this afternoon a brief and very imperfect sketch of the changes made in the English Law of Real Property by the Law of Property Act, 1922. When I tell you that the Act traverses the whole field of ...

    • The licensing of shops 

      Meredith, James C. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1927)
      The extension and multiplication of licensing provisions is a natural, and perhaps inevitable, outcome of the development and growing complexity of civilization and social organization. This tendency is viewed with ...

    • Methods of sampling applied to Irish statistics 

      Geary, R. C. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)
      As the Society is aware, during the recent troubles the system of complete enumeration of agricultural statistics broke down in this country, and since then it has been necessary to rely on estimates derived from a ...

    • Mortality from influenza in Ireland 

      Thompson, William J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1920)
      Since the period of the Great Famine ("The Black Forty-seven"), with its awful attendant horrors of fever and cholera, no disease of an epidemic nature created so much havoc in any one year in Ireland as Influenza ...