Browsing JSSISI: 1900 to 1906, Vol. XI, Parts LXXXI to LXXXVI by Date of Publication
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The land purchase problem
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)It is a far cry from the turbulent scenes in the Legislative Assembly of 1790 to the quiet, almost dull, offices of the Estates Commissioners in 1906; and yet the changes that in the one case were effected with noise ... -
Technical education for commerce
(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
(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 ... -
The arterial drainage of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)When I mention that a sum of #961,235 14s. 7d. has been expended upon Arterial Drainage in Ireland, and that the annual instalments paid in redemption of principal and interest amount to #31,944 9s. 8d., I think the ... -
Housing of the rural population in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)It is generally supposed that the question of the housing of agricultural and other labourers in rural districts, which was dealt with in piecemeal and desultory fashion last Session, is now receiving the earnest and ... -
The housing of the people of Ireland during the period 1841-1901
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)I purpose this evening presenting to the Society a short review of the results of the inquiries made at each successive decennial Census from 1841, into the class of Houses in Ireland, and the accommodation afforded by ... -
Practical education in our schools
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)It will be admitted as a fundamental principle that the aim of all education is to fit children to do their duty worthily and successfully in later life. This conception of education covers a wide field. It includes the ... -
Ireland since the famine: a sketch of fifty years' economic and legislative changes
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)In addressing you this evening I propose to review, as shortly as the subject will admit, the economic and legislative changes that have taken place in Ireland during the last half-century?to take stock of our position ... -
Licensing and publichouse reform in Ireland [a continuation]
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)A little more than a year ago I read a paper on this subject before this Society (Journal, Vol. XI, p. 106), dealing mainly with the Report of the Royal Commission of 1896. I intend now to deal with the schemes proposed ... -
The progress of sanitary science in Belfast
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)The rapid increase of Belfast in population, and its rapid rise in commercial importance, chiefly accounts for the fact that the construction of good streets and erection of its principal public buildings dates from ... -
Salmon fisheries in Ireland and the report of the Irish Inland Fisheries Commission
(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 ... -
The report of the Tariff Commission
(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 ... -
The practice of the Commercial Court
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)I must preface my remarks upon this subject by stating that the Commercial Court to which I allude has no existence in Ireland, and therefore I am at a disadvantage in dealing with a system of judicial procedure with ... -
The financial aspect of parliamentary private bill procedure
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)The mode of conducting Parliamentary Inquiries into Private Bills relating to this country has been the subject of criticism for many years, and it has been brought before the public on many occasions, while it has ... -
Scottish Private Bill Legislation in working
(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 government management of Indian railways
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)I do not propose tonight to deal with the whole question of Indian Railways; it would be too wide a subject. I wish to refer to the recently published Report of Mr. Thomas Robertson, who was formerly Manager of the Great ... -
Educational value of co-operation among Irish farmers
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)The object of this paper is not to dwell upon the advantages which co-operation confers upon the farmer as an institution for ordinary business puposes, but to bring before you its effect upon the "country as a medium ... -
Cartels and syndicates in German industry
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)The object of this paper is to give some account of these German industrial organisations, known as Cartels and Syndicates. I am afraid not many of us in this country paid much attention to them until the question of " ... -
Fiscal policy: some lessons from the Blue Book
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)When I was asked to read a paper to this Society on the proposed changes in British Fiscal Policy which have made such a stir in recent times, I recognised at once that the subject must be treated here, not as one of ... -
Canals and waterways of western Europe
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)A history of the waterways of the world would tell a great part of the story of early human migration and the rise and growth of commercial intercourse. In early days, it was by rivers rather than by forest tracks that ...
