Archive for 'Music and Song'

The Big Strike of 1913

Old 1913 Ballad found. The words of this song were given to Brendan Byrne of the Labour History Society at a SIPTU May Day seminar in Athy by Mary Hoare Walsh. It was composed by local boatmen to commemorate events during the Lockout and came from a local boatman, Thomas McCormack of Allenwood South. He […]