As part of a weekend commemorating the Inner City Looking-on Festival of 1982, there will be a symposium in Liberty Hall to explore work, trade unionism and the 1913 Lockout from the perspectives of men and women, focusing on the story of the Lockout, from Padraig Yeates, pre-eminent historian of those events, Dock workers […]
Striking workers at spot where John Sutcliffe was shot on August 15th, 1911 during rail strike, which also involved rail workers in Ireland In the week following Liverpool’s Bloody Sunday of 13 August 1911, with a national railway strike spreading rapidly and dockers, seamen and others locked out, Liverpool and the whole of Britain […]
The US Labour pioneer Mary Harris Jones, the ‘Miners Angel’, is to be remembered in her Cork birthplace this coming weekend to mark the 175th anniversary of her birth. For details go tohttp://motherjones175.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/mother-jones-prog-5_24may.pdf
Globalisation promises that all will be wonderful…but people know now it is an unfair process and they are affected by it…even their very existence… (Marco, student, Cottbus, Lausitz, Eastern Germany, January 2007) in the programme of PHOTOIRELAND 2012 Dublin, Ireland curated by Moritz Neumüller presents an installation of Ausschnitte aus EDEN/Extracts from EDEN a project by Mark Curran as […]
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