Living the Lockout is a drama by award winning ANU Productions. It has been created by a partnership of Dublin City Council, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and Irish Heritage Trust. It is well worth a visit. Go to http://dublintenementexperience.com/ for more information
The Lockout T Shirt is now on sale in the in the Trinity College Students Union Shop (just inside the front gate of TCD)
A Panel in the making – this Panel, which is being made by Volunteers from the Abbey Theatre, is based on the famous photograph of Jim Larkin being arrested at the Imperial Hotel Dublin on Bloody Sunday 1913. It will go with two complementary panels in a large ‘Bloody Sunday’ block five feet wide by […]
Almost uniquely in Irish consciousness, the 1913 Lockout is remembered and accessed almost exclusively through literature. The events and the legacy of 1913 are often difficult to interpret. In his seminal book, ‘Strumpet City’, James Plunkett takes the events of 1913 and weaves them into a format that is instantly accessible: the humble story. Thus, […]
Here is the Mural that has won the Sunday World’s Best Men’s Shed competition. The ’third man’ in the picture is Seán, whose Dad Jason Walsh-McLean was one of the main artists involved. Jason says that when the organisation first acquired premises in Loughlinstown, County Dublin, “it was very dull, so we painted it. At […]
1913 and Beyond ‘Fellow delegates, In presenting their report for the year just passed your Committee have again to express their regret that labour legislation is not advanced during the period under review to any appreciable extent, and to record a succession of serious disappointments is but to place before you the absolute truth’. […]
On the History of the Larkin T shirt. The SIPTU Solidarity with Cuba Forum and the Irish Friends of Cuba Coalition have been discussing ways of commemorating the solidarity shown to the Dublin Lockout members by British trade Unions who contributes extraordinary supplies of food and clothing aid as well as […]
The 1913 Tram is on display at this weekend’s Prawn Festival in Howth (April 26th-28th). At least it did not have far to travel as the Museum is around the corner in the Deerpark and Howth Demesne.
This extract from Pat Quigley’s new book ‘The Polish Irishman: The Life and Times of Count Casimir Makievizc (Liffey Press) gives a flavour of this beatifully written and unusual take on Bohemian Dublin in the years leading up to the Easter Rising. Colourful characters, arcane organisations and the dog taken prisoner of war in 1916 […]
Over three hundred and fifty people attended the service organised by the Dublin Dock Workers Preservation Society in St Laurence O’Toole’s Church on Saturday 20th April 2013. Included in the gathering were Emer Costello (MEP), Maureen O’Sullivan TD and Pascal Donoghue TD, Councillor Lucy McRoberts (representing the Lord Mayor), and Councillors Nial Ring, Christy Burke and […]