It started a year ago with 400 pictures but the Dublin Dockers Preservation Society has now assembled 1,600 and the collection continues to grow. A selection of these was unveiled at the Dublin Port Company last night (Friday, March 23rd). We would have posted earlier but the local response from East Wall and Ringsend was so strong […]
Front cover of James Curry’s book Mercier Books Price €11.69 Who was Ernest Kavanagh and why was he significant in the era of the Lockout? Ernest Kavanagh was an insurance clerk who worked for the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union (ITGWU) in the four years or so prior to his fatal shooting on the front steps of […]
A 1913 Committee has been set up to commemorate the Great Lockout and the crucial events of that year in Dun Laoghaire and the surrounding district. These include the death on hunger and thirst strike of Irish Transport and General Workers Union branch secretary James Byrne, in protest at his imprisonment for union activities and the […]
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