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 […]
The 1913 Lockout Centenaery is not over yet – thousands of workers and their families were still subjected to extreme suffering a state repression in the winter of 1913-1914. One of the last casualties of the struggle for union recognition was 16 year old Alicia Brady’s death on January 1st. Her funeral took place on […]
Alicia Brady, a 16 year old Jacob’s striker, was fatally injured by the ricochet from a revolver fired by a strike breaker, or scab, called Patrick Traynor on this day (December 18th) 100 years ago. She would subsequently die from tetanus contracted from the ricochet, which struck her in the hand. At the inquest […]
At last, the Making of the Great 1913 Lockout Tapestry Book is now available from SIPTU Communications Department, Liberty Hall, Dublin 1. It is also available in a few retail outlets including the Glasnevin Cemetery Museum, Alan Hanna’s Bookshop in Rathmines, The Abbey Theatre and Books Upstairs in Dublin. It costs €15 and makes an […]
Finally, RTE is to broadcast its TV Documentary on the 1913 Lockout – Just in time to meet the Centenary deadline. It is based on descendants of participants. One of the most interesting should be the family of Thomas Harten, the only strike breaker, or ‘scab’, killed in the Lockout. Needless to say the story […]
Mary enright reviews two plays about the Lockout currently being performed in Dublin and asksshould they not be dubbed what they really are – Musicals. And good ones at that Two plays based on the 1913 Lockout are being staged in Dublin at the moment. The Risen People, by James Plunkett, is taking place […]
Jimmy Fay’s production of the Lockout is more a revue than a play. It is longer but moves faster than James Plunkett’s original and Larkin’s role is written out, transferring his words to the lips of the actors. It works really well and actually strengthens to political message of the original. Well […]