Living the Lockout is a drama by award winning ANU Productions. It has been created by a partnership of Dublin City Council, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and Irish Heritage Trust. It is well worth a visit. Go to http://dublintenementexperience.com/ for more information
The Lockout T Shirt is now on sale in the in the Trinity College Students Union Shop (just inside the front gate of TCD)
A Panel in the making – this Panel, which is being made by Volunteers from the Abbey Theatre, is based on the famous photograph of Jim Larkin being arrested at the Imperial Hotel Dublin on Bloody Sunday 1913. It will go with two complementary panels in a large ‘Bloody Sunday’ block five feet wide by […]
Almost uniquely in Irish consciousness, the 1913 Lockout is remembered and accessed almost exclusively through literature. The events and the legacy of 1913 are often difficult to interpret. In his seminal book, ‘Strumpet City’, James Plunkett takes the events of 1913 and weaves them into a format that is instantly accessible: the humble story. Thus, […]
Here is the Mural that has won the Sunday World’s Best Men’s Shed competition. The ’third man’ in the picture is Seán, whose Dad Jason Walsh-McLean was one of the main artists involved. Jason says that when the organisation first acquired premises in Loughlinstown, County Dublin, “it was very dull, so we painted it. At […]
1913 and Beyond ‘Fellow delegates, In presenting their report for the year just passed your Committee have again to express their regret that labour legislation is not advanced during the period under review to any appreciable extent, and to record a succession of serious disappointments is but to place before you the absolute truth’. […]
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