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    • Proposals for a new Labourers' Bill: an attempt to solve the rural housing question in Ireland 

      Synnott, Nicholas J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)
      We have now had more than 20 years experience of the attempt to provide habitable houses for labourers in country districts in Ireland, by means of an elaborate code of seven Statutes, beginning with the Labourers' Act ...
    • The report of the Tariff Commission 

      Geoghegan, Hanbury C. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)
      I propose in this paper to criticise Mr. Chamberlain's Tariff Commission and its report issued on the 21st July last; just a week after the meeting held at Westminster, passed resolutions adopting his fiscal policy. The ...
    • Salmon fisheries in Ireland and the report of the Irish Inland Fisheries Commission 

      Conner, H. D. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)
      The object of this paper is to bring before this Society the importance of the salmon fishery to the country districts of Ireland, to give an outline of the conditions essential to insure its prosperity, and to summarize ...
    • Scottish Private Bill Legislation in working 

      Samuels, Arthur W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)
      Were it not for the fact that a Private Legislation Reform Bill for Wales, passed unanimously on the 25th March, 1904 its second reading in the House of Commons, and that not a single Irish Member brought forward the ...
    • The social legislation of 1904 - registration of clubs (Ireland); licensing (England): applicability of it to Ireland 

      Lawson, William (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)
      The public general Statutes passed in the Session of 1904, are only thirty-six in number, and are contained in one hundred and three pages of print. Amongst these are four measures of considerable importance in social ...
    • Suggested substitutes for the present Poor Law system 

      Dawson, Charles (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)
      The continual complaints in Great Britain and Ireland of the inefficiency and extravagance of the Poor Law System, have been accentuated of late by the labour crisis and want of employment. Criticisms abound and ...
    • Technical education for commerce 

      Oldham, C.H. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)
      I imagine that to many of my audience tonight there must appear to be something incongruous about the title of this paper. Technical Schools are well understood in these countries to mean institutions that educate ...
    • The tourist movement in Ireland 

      Wilson, D. J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)
      My paper should, I am aware, be devoted to a statistical and social review. I have discovered, however, that the subject is eminently one which does not lend itself to statistics, and I propose instead to treat it from ...