Edition Bobbett2. Speeches and statements by Elizabeth F. Bobbett

1952 Wicklow, Meeting of the County Council

Source: Irish Press, 19.01.1952

When Miss Elizbeth F. Bobbett proposed at Wicklow County Council to ask the Minister for Industry and Commerce to consider a factory to prepare and export dead meat for horse flesh, her object, she explained, was to stop the cruelty in the exportation of live horses, to provide better prices for farmers and give employment at home.

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Miss Bobbett said a Belgian firm was prepared to establish a factory and, at the suggestion of the meeting, she undertook to obtain further information, while asking the Minister again to examine into the matter.

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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 Wicklow, Meeting of the County Council, 1952, 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/1952-01-19-456.html, consulted on .

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