Edition Bobbett2. Speeches and statements by Elizabeth F. Bobbett

1950 Ashford, Meeting of the Irish Farmers’ Federation

Source: Irish Press, 06.05.1950

Miss Elizabeth F. Bobbett, General Secretary, IFF, said that everywhere now there were reports of surplus food, but they also read of famines and people starving. By improved methods they had been able to improve food production in the last 100 years, but the people who could buy that food were kept down by a financial system that was in being for over 300 years. It was about time to change it.

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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.

Suggested citation

Elizabeth Bobbett: Speech in Ashford, Meeting of the Irish Farmers’ Federation, 1950, 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/1950-05-06-448.html, consulted on .

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