A 1913 Committee has been set up to commemorate the Great Lockout and the crucial events of that year in Dun Laoghaire and the surrounding district. These include the death on hunger and thirst strike of Irish Transport and General Workers Union branch secretary James Byrne, in protest at his imprisonment for union activities and the […]
Two UCD students Aoife O’Neill and Michael Smalle recently completed an extended interview with Padraig Yeates, author of Lockout: Dublin 1913, which has now gone viral (in the nicest possible way). The full audio version is on http://soundcloud.com/the-1913-lockout The edited Video Chapters are on http://www.youtube.com/user/lockoutwiki
Eurofound research presented at a recent seminar in the European Parliament estimated the cost of excluding young people from the labour market at over €100 billion across 21 Member States in 2009. The issue of young people (aged between 16 and 24 years) who are not in education, employment or training (the so-called ‘NEETs’) has […]
1913 Committee – Reclaiming Our Past – Proclaiming Our Future! Bulletin 1 April 2nd, 2011 (Tram Strike Day -876) Join Us On Our Journey We are on the eve of a decade of centenaries in Ireland, beginning with the Ulster Crisis in 1912 and concluding with the Civil War in 1922-3. There will be much […]
CHARTER 1913 to 2013 – A New Republic A new Republic can be forged from the embers of the collapse of a value system which has placed individual greed over the common good. It must reflect our collective solidarity while respecting the integrity of the hopes and aspirations of all who live in Ireland […]