LARKIN AND MURPHY TO STAR IN JAMESON DUBLIN FILM FESTIVAL
Jed Murray as Jim Larkin in Dublin Fringe Festival
THE ASKWITH INQUIRY TO BE SHOWN AS PART OF JAMESON FILM FESTIVAL
The Inquiry: From the 29th September to the 6th October 1913, in a meeting room in the East Wing of Dublin Castle, the two key protagonists of the lockout, trade unionist Jim Larkin and industrialist William Martin Murphy were cross-examined, delivered evidence and made statements to the Board of Trade Inquiry into the Dublin Industrial Dispute headed by Sir George Askwith. As the British and international media looked on an iconic clash of ideolgies and personalities took place which still resonates today.
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Saturday, February 22nd:
12.30 pm: ‘The Inquiry’, a dramatisation of the Asklwith Inquiry into the 1913 Lockout. The cast includes Stephen Murray as Jim Larkin, Bosco Hogan as William Martin Murphy, Pat O’Donnell as James Connolly and Gerry O’Brien as T M Healy. The Lighthouse, Smithfield, Dublin.