Cork conference on the Cause of Labour – 1913 and Beyond

Cork studies in the Irish revolution

Conference on ‘The cause of Labour: 1913 and beyond’

Proposals for papers of up to 20 minutes duration are invited for the second conference in the series ‘Cork studies in the Irish revolution’, on the subject of the Dublin lockout of 1913, and the role of labour during the revolutionary decade in modern Irish history (1912-23), which is to be held in University College Cork, Ireland, on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 March, 2013.

Papers may deal with any aspect of the subject.  Proposals from all disciplines are welcome in order to encourage discussion of the subject from as many angles as possible. Postgraduate students are particularly encouraged to offer papers.

Possible topics include:

•             the role of key personalities and organisations in the labour movement, 1912-23;

•             the evolution of the Irish labour movement before the Lockout;

•             responses to the Lockout within Dublin, the rest of Ireland, the United Kingdom, and beyond;

•             governmental, diasporic and media responses to the Lockout and labour issues during the revolutionary period;

•             the legacy of the Lockout;

•             labour and the home rule question;

•             labour in the North/labour and partition;

•             labour and the First World War;

•             labour and Sinn Féin;

•             trade unionism and the IRA, 1917-23;

•             labour militancy in Ireland, 1914-23 (especially regional studies);

•             land agitation, 1912-23;

•             socialism, communism, syndicalism and the Irish revolution;

•             international labour/socialist influences on/responses to the Irish revolution;

•             the Irish working class (beyond the labour movement) and the Irish revolution;

•             opposition to ‘the cause of labour’;

•             labour and the civil war;

•             working women and the Irish revolution;

•             representations of the Lockout and the role of labour during the revolutionary decade on film and television, and in literature and the arts

Proposals for papers on germane topics not included in the above list are, of course, welcome.

Abstracts of 250 words may be e-mailed to Gabriel Doherty, of the School of History, University College Cork, at g.doherty@ucc.ie.

The closing date for abstracts is Friday, 7 December 2012.