Dublin City Archive has just produced a new collection of online images around the theme of ‘Disease and Dirt: Public Health in Dublin, 1903-1917’ based on Dr Enda Leaney’s lecture during the Larkin Hedge School. It is well worth a visit. See the link below http://www.dublincitypubliclibraries.com/story/disease-and-dirt-public-health-dublin-1903-1917 This Photo of Corporation Disinfectors is typical of these […]
1913 Lockout – Alternative Visions Oral History Group Training Course in Oral History Skills Are you a trade union member or are you a resident of an area or a member of a family with strong connections to the 1913 Lockout? Are you interested in recording and preserving stories of the Lockout and analysing […]
As part of a weekend commemorating the Inner City Looking-on Festival of 1982, there will be a symposium in Liberty Hall to explore work, trade unionism and the 1913 Lockout from the perspectives of men and women, focusing on the story of the Lockout, from Padraig Yeates, pre-eminent historian of those events, Dock workers […]
Striking workers at spot where John Sutcliffe was shot on August 15th, 1911 during rail strike, which also involved rail workers in Ireland In the week following Liverpool’s Bloody Sunday of 13 August 1911, with a national railway strike spreading rapidly and dockers, seamen and others locked out, Liverpool and the whole of Britain […]
The US Labour pioneer Mary Harris Jones, the ‘Miners Angel’, is to be remembered in her Cork birthplace this coming weekend to mark the 175th anniversary of her birth. For details go tohttp://motherjones175.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/mother-jones-prog-5_24may.pdf
Globalisation promises that all will be wonderful…but people know now it is an unfair process and they are affected by it…even their very existence… (Marco, student, Cottbus, Lausitz, Eastern Germany, January 2007) in the programme of PHOTOIRELAND 2012 Dublin, Ireland curated by Moritz Neumüller presents an installation of Ausschnitte aus EDEN/Extracts from EDEN a project by Mark Curran as […]
Paradise Alley and the “ugly things” of 1913 Tuesday, June 26th sees the launch of a reprint of John D Sheridan’s classic account of working class life in Dublin’s docklands during the Lockout. “Paradise Alley” was first published in 1945 by Talbot Press and has been largely unavailable for half a century. This new edition, from Seven Towers, a […]
L a r k i n H e d g e S c h o o l A festival of music, song, poetry, dance, literature and journalism in the heart of Dublin City larkinhedgeschool@gmail.com 10th-12th May 2012 www.cleclub.wetpaint.com FULL PROGRAMME
It started a year ago with 400 pictures but the Dublin Dockers Preservation Society has now assembled 1,600 and the collection continues to grow. A selection of these was unveiled at the Dublin Port Company last night (Friday, March 23rd). We would have posted earlier but the local response from East Wall and Ringsend was so strong […]
Front cover of James Curry’s book Mercier Books Price €11.69 Who was Ernest Kavanagh and why was he significant in the era of the Lockout? Ernest Kavanagh was an insurance clerk who worked for the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union (ITGWU) in the four years or so prior to his fatal shooting on the front steps of […]