A chara,—The article by Eoin McLaughlin and Paul Sharp concerning the 1919 dispute between Richard McEllistrim and the Ballymacelligott Co-operative Dairy Society (HI 26.4, July/August 2018) is rather wide of the mark in its suggestion that dairy processing in Ireland was made ‘exclusively cooperative’ following the purchase of all private creamery interests by the Dairy ... Read more
