Mike Lee (left) of Dun Laoghaire 1913 Committee presents copy of the book produced to tell the story of the great Dublin Lockout in Kingstown (as it was then known) to President Michael D Higgins in Aras an Uachtarain on Friday, April 4th, 2014. During the Lockout local Irish Transport and General Workers’ Branch Secretary […]
Sunday next 30th March at 7.30 pm the Cle Club will present a dramatic musical and theatrical entertainment based on songs, music, blasts and benedictions of playwright Sean O’Casey. Sunday next is Sean’s Birthday and for the occasion his daughter Shivaun will be in Liberty Hall to participate in this musical celebration. O’Casey the author […]
There was a big turnout for Irish Citizen Army Commemoration in Liberty Hall on Saturday. When SIPTU President Jack O’Connor opened proceedings he asked for a minute’s silence on behalf of Shane MacThomais. It’s the first time a historian received such an accolade in Liberty Hall – maybe they did it for Sean O’Casey – […]
The formation of the Irish Citizen Army was a direct result of the 1913 Lockout but it was not until March 22nd, 1914, that it ceased to be ‘an airy nothing’, as Sean O’Casey put it, and ‘began to forge its way into the stormy centre of Irish politics’. On that day the members voted […]
This Saturday (March 8th) year a very small woman will cast a long shadow over International Women’s Day in Dublin, where a very successful campaign by Labour Youth activists has led to the naming of the new Luas Bridge across the River Liffey after Rosie Hackett, the 1913 and 1916 veteran, who was also […]
RADE’s ‘100 Years Ago’ received rave reviews when it was performed in Dublin Theatre Festival and later in December last year. There is one last performance in Liberty Hall at 7.30 pm on Tuesday, March 4th, 2014. It is being given in aid of the Simon Community. “A Hundred Years Ago” explores the dramatic events […]
Alan Weldon outlines the scope of the recent unusual Nearfm take on the 1913 Lockout Reinterpreting 1913 is a radio series which looked at the Artistic influence that the lockout has had on a number of different artistic disciplines over the past Century. It aims to explore how historical conflict can give creative inspiration to […]
THE ASKWITH INQUIRY TO BE SHOWN AS PART OF JAMESON FILM FESTIVAL The Inquiry: From the 29th September to the 6th October 1913, in a meeting room in the East Wing of Dublin Castle, the two key protagonists of the lockout, trade unionist Jim Larkin and industrialist William Martin Murphy were cross-examined, delivered evidence […]
Benefit for Dublin Simon Community Service Users of RADE take a direct role in supporting the Dublin Simon Community and mark the end of the centenary celebrations of the 1913 Lock Out with a final farewell performance, in Liberty Hall Theatre, of their acclaimed play “A Hundred Years Ago” on Tuesday 4th March at 7.30pm “A Hundred Years Ago” explores the […]
Stella McConnon, Jim Larkin’s grand daughter and Tess Carroll, who worked in an umbrella factory he organised, remember Jim Larkin https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-5Bgk23VHSWc19mZXQ0ZnBocXc/edit?usp=sharing These four short films were created by students of Larkin Community College during the third year of a three-year partnership project between the National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts & History and Larkin […]