Edition Bobbett2. Speeches and statements by Elizabeth F. Bobbett

1955 Wicklow, Meeting of the County Council

Source: Wicklow People, 19.02.1955

Miss Bobbett said that the council should reiterate necessity for more power in spending the money on county roads. She reminded the Council that while passing such a huge sum on services, at every meeting throughout the year, they had additional sums passed, more loans, increases in wages and salaries, health charges, etc. She would like the figures of the increases on the estimates of last year so occasioned including retrospective salaries, and she asked that having passed the estimates, they would have no extra loans in the coming year.

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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 Wicklow, Meeting of the County Council, 1955, 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/1955-02-19-467.html, consulted on .

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