THE MOVEMENT IN IRELAND 87 



Sir Horace Plunkett's schemes include, in fact, not only 

 the spread of agricultural organisation in Ireland, but a 

 comprehensive reconstruction of rural life in its various 

 phases with a view to retaining people on the soil, and to 

 rendering existence in the country districts at once more 

 pleasurable and more profitable. It was his ideas on this 

 subject that inspired those views thereon of Mr. Roosevelt 

 of which mention is made on pp. 45 — 46 



There has now, also, been established in Ireland an 

 organisation known as " The United Irishwomen," which, 

 operating in affiliation with the Irish Agricultural Organisa- 

 tion Society, is to supplement the activities of the sterner 

 sex, and operate on lines akin to those of the hundreds of 

 Women's Institutes at work in Canada, devoting its own 

 energies more especially to (1) agriculture and industries ; 

 (2) domestic economy ; and (3) social and intellectual 

 development. It is felt that in all three departments there 

 is much that women could do for the betterment of rural 

 conditions in general, and the scheme in question, first 

 started by Mrs. Harold Lett, at Bree, co. Wexford, on 

 June 15th, 1910, has since developed into a central union 

 and branches under the control of an executive committee 

 meeting in Dublin. Details concerning this most interesting 

 movement will be found in a sixpenny pamphlet on " The 

 United Irishwomen : Their Place, Work and Ideals," 

 published by Maunsel & Co., Dublin. 



