East Wall Evictions Commemoration

If, like me, you missed this important 1913 commemoration (I missed train connection from Cork, what’s your excuse?) you can see highlights on this Youtube link   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKMs_7YPmyw

James Plunkett Award Short Story Shortlist Announced

Following three rounds of competition, the Irish Writers’ Union are pleased to announce the following have made the final shortlist of nine for the James Plunkett Short Story Award. Noel O’Regan, “Hoax” Fiona O’Connor, “The Mystery of the Missing Finger and the Dead Cat” Maureen Gallagher, “Apparition at Friars Hill” Eleanor O’Reilly, “Coagulated Blood and […]

The 1913 Tapestry is launched today. Volunteer Mary Enright talks about working on this major project

The 1913 Tapestry was launched by President Higgins, in Liberty Hall on 18th Sept. 2013. This tapestry tells the story of many events which took place in 1913. There are 29 pictures -panels- depicting those events. These are grouped together on nine white “pages”, so that the exhibition is presented as reading a large “comic”. […]

1913 Lockout Merchants Road Evictions Images may fade, but our memories should not

During the 1913 Lockout over sixty East Wall families were evicted by the Merchants Warehousing Company. The photograph above is a particularly haunting image, showing an evicted family carrying their possessions along Merchants Road. The other two photographs, while not as poignant, also illustrate the events of that day. The first shows bailiffs gathered at […]

BBC and RTE on Legacy of Lockout

Here is a good take on the Lockout and Unions from the BBC –  http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/uk-northern-ireland-24019495> and for anyone who missed Philip Bromwell’s piece on the Lockout Tapestry in RTE’s 6.01 News http://www.rte.ie/news/player/six-one-news/ The item is 33 minutes and 20 seconds in And don’t forget last in series of wonderful Athena Media documentary series is on […]

Frank Moss – A Forgotten Leader of 1913 Lockout

  Christopher Lee follows his ground breaking account of the Lockout in Swords with this account of Frank Moss, the leader of the Swords strikers in the Lockout of 1913.    A century after the events of 1913 the names most closely associated with the Dublin Lockout are of course those of James Larkin, James Connolly […]

Larkin €15 Silver Coin from Central Bank to mark Lockout Centenary

Artist Rory Breslin describes how he came up with the design: Taking cognisance of the size of the finished coin and need for simplicity, the coin represents the images I believe most of us have in our minds when conjuring up the 1913 Lockout …. the crowds on the streets of the working and middle class, […]

East Wall to commemorate strikers’ families evicted in Lockout and Men’s Shed Mural launch this weekend September

RTE Documentary – Podcast for those who missed Fifth episode on Saturday

For those who missed the Fifth Part of the RTE Radio Documentary by Athena Media on the Lockout ‘Citizens’ last Saturday you can click on the podcast link below http://www.rte.ie/radio1/citizens-lockout-1913-to-2013/   The next episode is at 6.06pm on Saturday, September 14th, 2013  

‘A bit of a genius’ – remembering Jim Larkin’s gunned down cartoonist and Irish Worker of September 7th, 1913

  ON THE MORNING of Tuesday 25 April 1916 Ernest Kavanagh was shot dead on the front steps of Liberty Hall, the headquarters of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union (ITGWU) where he was employed as a clerk. One of several hundred civilians to be killed during the Easter Rising, the Dubliner was 32 years […]