The Legendary Lofty Clattery Cafe : Bewleys of Ireland

Published by Riversend Ltd. 19/20 Fleet Street, Dublin 2 in 1988. Cover illustrations : Pauline Bewick, Design: Ger Garland, Typesetting: Printset & Design Ltd., Printed in Ireland by Microprint. 72 p. col. ill. 24 cm.https://arrow.tudublin.ie/irckbooks/1116/thumbnail.jp

The Protection of the Agrimi: Further Notes

After my report was in print I received Bulletin No. 6 of the Commission de la Chasse en Montagne dated the 21st July, 1952. This bulletin contains a very interesting section on the game of Greece and, in particular, a report by M. Georges Livas on the Cretan wild goat and the goats on the island of Ghyaros (Ghiura), in the Northern Sporades, and on the island of Antimilos.</jats:p

Deficiencies in the Theory of Free-Knot and Variable-Knot Spline Graduation

This paper revisits the theory and practical implementation of graduation of mortality rates using spline functions, and in particular, variable-knot cubic spline graduation. The paper contrasts the actuarial literature on free-knot splines with the mathematical literature. It finds that the practical difficulties of implementing free-knot spline graduation are not recognised in the actuarial literature reviewed. The paper also revisits the results of the graduation of the English Life Tables no. 14 (ELT 14) experience for male lives using a \'multistart\' optimisation approach for the free-knot graduation. Application of this technique results in the finding that the chi-squared values reported in the ELT 14 graduation for male lives for 10, 11 and 12 knots were not optimal values. The multistart optimisation results appear to show that McCutcheon\'s t-statistic, which is used in variable-knot spline graduation to select the optimal number of knots, may not in fact result in an optimal choice. Free-knot spline graduation should be used with caution and variable-knot spline graduation, in the form that employs McCutcheon\'s t-statistic, should not be used. KEYWORDS Mortality; graduation; splines; free-knot spline; variable-knot spline (South African Actuarial Journal: 2002 2: 69-82

The Protection of the Agrimi

From information gathered from officers who had fought with the partisans in Crete in the last war and others it had become clear that the agrimi, or wild goat of Crete, Capra hircus œgarus, was in danger of extinction.</jats:p

« Dans ce pays, nous ne lisons pas de livres »

Au début du xxe siècle, la grande majorité des Irlandais savait lire, et la lecture des journaux (en particulier des hebdomadaires, comme le Weekly Freeman) était largement répandue. Cependant, les Irlandais ne lisaient pas de livres. Comme l’écrivit Yeats, Les gens en Irlande ont du respect pour la littérature mais ne lisent rien. Ils honorent les mots de « poète » et de « penseur » mais n’achètent pas de livres. Ils sont fiers d’appartenir à un peuple plus imaginatif que les Anglais, mais f..