Spirit of Mother Jones festival 2014. The 2014 Spirit of Mother Jones festival/ summer school will be held in Cork city from Tuesday 29th July until Friday 1st August 2014. The event is designed to commemorate trade union activist, Mary Harris, better known as Mother Jones, who was born in Cork in 1837, it […]
John Geary – Professor of Industrial Relations and Human Resources at UCD Opinion (Irish Times 21/0114) While unions often have to struggle for recognition, their role has contemporary social value Last Saturday marked the centenary of the ending of the 1913 Great Dublin Lockout. An important subtext of the centenary celebrations has been […]
Jim Larkin Commemoration Sunday, February 2nd, 2014, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin 11 am to 12 noon Last year a commemoration was held at the graveside of Jim Larkin in Glasnevin Cemetery for the first time in 15 years to mark the beginning of the 1913 Lockout Centenary. This year’s commemoration is to revive this honourable tradition […]
Owen Boss of ANU Productions has sent us this obituary of his Great Grand Father P T Daly from the Irish Press. Daly died on November 20th, 1943 so presumably the cutting is from Monday, November 22nd, 1943. Big Jim Larkin is the figure on the right at the bottom right of the picture. […]
Irish Times Report by Frank McNally of the Abbey’s Risen People performance in Wheatfield Prison January 14th, 2014
ANU Production members woke up to some very good news this morning when they learned it had been nominated for two Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards ,including best costume design for Saileóg O’Halloran and the Judges Special Award for ANU: “To mark its work commemorating the Dublin Lockout, using the city as its set, and its reconfiguration […]
Saturday, January 25th: 2:30pm: After Lockout Centenary – Trade Union Organising in 2014 and Beyond. Dun Laoghaire Club, Eblana Avenue, Dun Laoghaire Speakers include Gerry Craughwell, President Teachers Union of Ireland, Eira Gallagher (SIPTU), Jimmy Kelly (Unite). Workshops: Facing the challenges in workplaces and communities – practical steps in how to organise Panel Discussion […]
‘Labor & Dignity – James Connolly in America’ Exhibition Launch at TCD The Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute is currently hosting an exhibition by New York University’s Glucksman Ireland House on the time that James Connolly spent in the United States between 1903 and 1910, where he witnessed the […]
There was a huge turn out at the Alicia Brady Centenary in Glasnevin today, where SIPTU General President Jack O’Connor gave graveside oration Speech by Jack O’Connor, General President of SIPTU, at the grave of Alicia Brady, Glasnevin Cemetery, Saturday, January 4th, 2014 Comrades and Friends we are assembled here in the presence of members […]
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