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

1970 Elizabeth Bobbett: Letter to the Irish Farmer’s Journal, 20.06.1970

The Bank Strike

Dear Sir. Call it a Bank Strike or a Shut Out, it is a matter between the bankers and the Irish Bank Officials Association. But for the general public, they are the people to suffer most, directly or indirectly, for the following reasons: Many businesses and County Councils and Urban Councils and private persons run overdrafts. The banks shut their doors and people could not lodge money to bring down their overdrafts. At 9% interest this means a huge increase on overdrafts and it will be most unjust for the banks to charge interest from the time they closed the doors till they open them again for usual business.

In Dublin city and some counties, people pay their rates monthly, and that fact was the means of keeping down the interest on overdrafts. The banks have the monopoly of the credit for the country, they have the power under the bank charter Acts “to create credit out of nothing and charge interest thereon”. It is most unjust for them to charge interest under present conditions.

Elizabeth F. Bobbett, Springfield, Kilbride, Wicklow.

About the digital edition

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: Letter to the Irish Farmer’s Journal, 20.06.1970, 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/1970-06-20-268.html, consulted on .

Copyright and Creative Commons Licence

This digital edition is subject to copyright and the Creative Commons licence CC-BY-SA.

Export as a TEI XML file

The edition of the writings of Elizabeth F. Bobbett can also be downloaded as a TEI XML file here.