A Slogan for All Seasons – Wintry Launch for Strumpet City
1913 Tram arriving outside Custom House on Tuesday, March 26th for One City One Book Launch of Strumpet City by James Plunkett Kelly, with a slogan for all seasons
Archive for March, 2013
TRAM(P) LAUNCH OF STRUMPET CITY ONE CITY ONE BOOK
Irish Times report by Patsy McGarry, March 26th, 2013 – Picture collage by James L Kelly courtesy of Dublin City Libraries Siptu president Jack O’Connor was struck yesterday by parallels between the Dublin of 2013 and that of 100 years ago. He had been at a photo shoot outside the Custom House, part of […]
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Fred Bower’s Open Letter to British Soldiers – a Docker confronts Soldiers during Liverpool General StrikeRon Noone recalls a dramatic but largely forgotten episode from Larkin’s stormy career involving Larkin’s life long friend, Anarchist Stone Mason Fred Bower Fred’s “Open Letter to British soldiers” was sponsored by Jim Larkin. A month before the Liverpool General […]
Dublin City Council launches Decade of Commemorations Website
Dublin City Council has launched its Decade of Commemorations Website and it is well worth a visit. Go to website below or click DCC link on left hand side of the page http://www.dublincity.ie/RecreationandCulture/DecadeofCommemorations/DecadeofCommemorations/Pages/DecadeofCommemorations.aspx
Sligo – a forgotten victory from 1913
There is a new blog on the National Library of Ireland site on the battle for union recognition in Sligo during 1913. Unlike that in Dublin it ended in victory although one ITGWU docker, Patrick Dubar, was killed and dozens of dockers were imprisoned during it http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2013/03/08/sligo-dispute
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