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Ireland's Industrial Opportunities

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A LECTURE delivered in April last before the Insurance Institute of Ireland by Mr. George Fletcher, the assistant secretary of technical instruction, and recently issued in pamphlet form, deserves the serious attention of all well-wishers of Ireland. We have in Ireland a population little more than half of what it was in 1841, and which is now annually depleted by emigration to such an extent that any increase in its population is well-nigh impossible.

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REYNOLDS, J. Ireland's Industrial Opportunities . Nature 96, 23–24 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096023a0

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