Saturday, July 26th, 2014 THE HOWTH GUN RUNNING; 100 YEARS ON Collins Barracks, Dublin   10.00am Welcome with Raghnall O’ Floinn, Director, National Museum of Ireland 10.10am The Guns of July Professor Michael Laffan, University College, Dublin 10.30am Ulster Volunteer Force Gun-running, 1913-14 Dr Tim Bowman, University of Kent 10.50am The Gun-running: Planning […]

Irish Media Team wins four awards in New York – including Gold for Lockout documentary

Athena Media first Irish independent to win four awards at 2014 New York Festival Radio Awards   Four Athena Media radio projects have brought home awards from this year’s prestigious New York Festival Radio Awards, winning two Gold, one Silver, and one Finalist award. Herosongs, our history meets song series (RTE Radio 1/BAI), won Gold in […]

RHYTHMS OF A PORT OPENS TUESDAY JULY 1st

RHYTHMS OF A PORT A Film Installation  PhotoIreland Festival 2014    You are warmly invited to the  Opening Reception Tuesday 1st July at 6pm   Sea Tunes provided by Eoin Kenny, Sean Fitzpatrick, Ceoltóirí Chluain Tarbh and John Nolan   The Red Brick Shed on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay  at the junction with Lime Street, beside […]

Music Lectures and Films Will Celebrate Cork’s Greatest Labour Campaigner in US

The Spirit of Mother Jones Festival and Summer School 2014 The third annual festival will be held on Cork’s north side in historic Shandon from Tuesday 29th July until Mother Jones Day on Friday 1st August. Born nearby, Mary Harris was baptised in Cork’s North Chapel on August 1st 1837. Emigrating to America after the […]

Film of Lockout Play by RADE

RADE (Recovery through Art, Drama, Education) has been producing original theatre plays, films, art exhibitions, books of creative writing and short films for the past 10 years.  “A Hundred Years Ago” was first performed in Smock Alley Theatre in September 2013.   It ran for a further three weeks in December and finally to mark the […]

Major History Seminar in Kells to look at new perspectives on Politics and War in Meath 1913 to 1923 – May 31st

The recent launch of the new edition of Oliver Coogan’s groundbreaking Politics and War in Meath 1913-23 serves as an inspiration for a public seminar to be held in Kells on Saturday 31 May next, writes Danny Cusack. Coogan was a native of Navan and teacher at Dunshaughlin Community College. He passed away suddenly in […]

CWU and IMPACT unions to display Lockout Tapestry at their conferences in Killarney this Month

If anyone is travelling to Killarney this month they might be interested to know that the 1913 Lockout tapestry will be on display at the Communications Workers Union Conference in the Gleneagles Hotel, Killarney from May 7th to 9th and at the IMPACT conference in the same venue from May 14th to 17th. The Tapestry […]

Battle of Annesley Bridge in 1916 and Lockout Remembered

Joe Mooney sent in this short blog and great pic of Eamon Carpenter and Geraldine Gilsenan. Our thanks to Joe, Eamon, Geraldine and Hugo McGuinness, local historian and organiser of the tour to commemorate Easter Week   After the “Battle of Annesley Bridge”  walking tour  Eamon Carpenter spoke about his father Peter ,and also about […]

“Blackguard” Tom Daly …a story so big we needed two parts to tell it !

On the 16th April 1916 an Irish Republican flag was flown for the first time over Liberty Hall. It was a hugely symbolic ceremony , a message of defiance and a signal of intent by the Irish Citizen Army. Amongst those caught up in the excitement and emotion of the day was Tom Daly. In […]

The “Blackguard” Daly, the Lockout and the killing of “Harten the Blackleg” 1913 Lockout, East Wall, History, Irish Citizen Army

East Wall for All has produced the first of a two part article on the life of Tom Daly, the ITGWU strike falsely accused of murdering Thomas Harten, the only ‘scab’ or strike breaker killed in the 1913 Lockout For the full story go to http://eastwallforall.ie/?p=2261