Edition Bobbett1. Texts by Elizabeth F. Bobbett: 1.1.2. Correspondence, Letters to the authorities

1941 Elizabeth Bobbett: Letter to the Wicklow County Council, 15.02.1941

Source: Wicklow County Archives (WCA), County Council Minutes, 1940/41, p. 203, 26.03.1941

The following letter from the County Secretary, County Wicklow Executive of the Irish Farmers’ Federation, was submitted: P. T. Healy, Esq., Secretary, Wicklow County Council, Courthouse, Wicklow.

Dear Mr. Healy. At our Annual Convention, on the 4th February, I was instructed to ask you what date will the General Meeting of the County Council be held, as we wish to send a small Deputation to the County Council that day.

I believe we have to apply at the previous meeting if we want a Deputation received, and, as I understand there is a meeting on the 17th instant, I hope you will bring this letter before them.

As the farmers at the present need all available cash procurable for the purchase of seeds, manures, and wages, in order to get in sufficient crops, we request the Council to extend by two months the period for payment of 1940/41 Rates. Owing to the dislocation caused by the Foot-and-Mouth Disease, it would be dreadful hardship to have farmers forced to sell their cattle now.

Yours faithfully, Elizabeth F. Bobbett, County Secretary.

Proposed by Councillor Senator Christopher M. Byrne; Seconded by Councillor Patrick Doyle (Coolboy). Resolved: That having regard to the abnormal times, through which the Ratepayers of County Wicklow are passing, we hereby extend to the 30th April, 1941, the period within which Rate Collectors shall have their Poor Rate Collections closed in respect of the financial year which ends on the 31st March, 1941. Passed.

The County Council, having decided to receive the Deputation which was present at the Meeting from the County Wicklow Executive of the Farmers’ Federation, heard the views on Rates generally submitted by Miss Elizabeth F. Bobbett, Springfield, Kilbride, Wicklow, and by Mr. William McDonald, Dunganstown, Wicklow, who were assured that the points made by them receive the serious consideration of the Council.

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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: Letter to the Wicklow County Council, 15.02.1941, 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/1941-02-15-79.html, consulted on .

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