Edition Bobbett1. Texts by Elizabeth F. Bobbett: 1.1.3. Correspondence, Letters to newspapers

1962 Elizabeth Bobbett: Letter to the Wicklow People, 24.11.1962

Improvements to Tap Road

At Wicklow County Council meeting held on 12th November, a discussion took place on a letter I had sent to The Wicklow People and Chairman of the County Council, complaining of the dangerous condition of the new road improvement and, in particular, of the entry from Kilbride road to main Wicklow-Arklow road. In the course of his report, the County Engineer stated there was a distance signpost at both sides of the junction.

Now I have been writing letters to The Wicklow People and other papers for many years and was in public life, and I never wrote or said anything I could not stand over as true. Up to 4 pm on the 20th November, there was no distance signpost on the Wicklow side of that road junction. There is a sign saying “Dunganstown, one mile,” but that sign cannot be seen when coming up the new road to give one a warning that there is a junction there.

Elizabeth F. Bobbett. Springfield, Kilbride, County Wicklow.

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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 People, 24.11.1962, 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/1962-11-24-226.html, consulted on .

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