Reference code
IE CA CP/3/16/37/38
Title
The Irish Cigarette / letter from Constance Markievicz
Date(s)
- 28 July 1920 (Creation)
Level of description
Part
Extent and medium
1 p.; clipping
Name of creator
(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
A clipping of a letter from Constance Markievicz published in the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ on the need to encourage more Irish people to buy locally made cigarettes. Markievicz references the experiences of female workers in the tobacco industry and a campaign by the Women Workers’ Union which notes that two hundred women had recently been dismissed due to a ‘slackness in work’.