Edition Bobbett2. Speeches and statements by Elizabeth F. Bobbett

1938 Fethard, Meeting of the Irish Farmers’ Federation

Source: Irish Independent, 21.02.1938

Dr. James Ryan, Minister for Agriculture, had said, in Wicklow, that the only cure for the present state of agriculture was harder work and more production; but how could farmers carry out that advice if they had not the money to buy seed, wheat, or a few cows or sows, said Miss Elizabeth F. Bobbett, general secretary, at a Farmers’ Federation meeting at Fethard. Were farmers, Miss Bobbett asked, going to allow the Government to put them out and give farms to others who would be paid 30s a week to work them, as in another scheme?

Rates in Wicklow, she said, had increased 120 per cent since 1932. Mr. Eamon de Valera, at Dublin Chamber of Commerce, had hoped that vocational groups would organise so that they could tell the Government what they wanted. That, said Miss Elizabeth Bobbett, was the aim of the Farmers’ Federation.

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This volume of Elizabeth F. Bobbett’s writings and speeches is divided into four parts. The first section comprises 321 texts written by her. The second part contains 150 speeches and statements by Bobbett, most of which were published in newspapers. Part 3 contains 727 texts written about Bobbett by contemporaries of her or addressed to her. Finally, Part 4 is a collection of 50 source texts that are important for understanding Elizabeth F. Bobbett’s activism. Parts 3 and 4 will be made available online in March 2027.

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Elizabeth Bobbett: Speech in Fethard, Meeting of the Irish Farmers’ Federation, 1938, in: Peter Moser (ed.), In her own Words. The Writings of Elizabeth F. Bobbett (1898-1971). Farmer, Feminist and Public Figure, Bern, 2026, https://www.histoirerurale.ch/editions/pages/bobbett/1938-02-21-413.html, consulted on .

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