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War is Women’s Business
“
”
were being felt
in the Carnegie
Public Library in
Cork. Extracts from the Annual Report 1916/1917 detail
the reduction in people using the library and
‘... presume
there will be no possibility of a return to the normal of
pre-war days, until some time after the close of the present
European crisis’.
The effects of the
War in Europe
Delays in the delivery of magazines and
periodicals were noted
‘Consequent on the
existing transit conditions, it has not been possible
to place the Magazines, etc., on the tables as
promptly as usual, a state of affairs that seems
likely to continue for some time to come’.
General journals were very popular and provided what could be
considered to be leisure time reading including stories in serial
form, poetry, book reviews, social commentary and politics.