Tall Tales from Tall Ships

The Dublin Dock Workers Preservation Society is delighted to announce that, as part of the Tall Ships Festival, it is holding a photographic exhibition and series of four talks on the history of Dublin Port. The exhibition will be hosted in the CHQ Centre at Georges Dock from the 23rd August to the 26th August while the talks will take place at the Centre or on mv Cadhla Barge, North Wall Quay nearby.

The Exhibition (covering 1940 to 1990) will be open on the 23rd, 24^th and 25th August from 11am to 6pm and on 26th August from 11am to 2.30pm. Click on ‘more’ for details of the talks:

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New Collection of Dublin Corporation images of ‘Dirt and Disease’

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 images and the Corporation’s approach to Public Health

Free Oral History Course on 1913 Lockout

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 its importance one hundred years on?
• Would you like to contribute to an oral history of the Lockout to be published in 2013?

If the answer is ‘yes’, you might be interested in taking part in a FREE Oral History Training Course which is FETAC accredited and begins on Saturday, 15 September at 9.30 am in the TEEU training centre, 6 Gardiner Row, Dublin 1.

    Irish Citizen Army veterans at Liberty Hall (more…)

The 1913 Lockout, Trade Unionism and Dublin’s Inner City,

The Future on the March

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 and trade unionism 1912 – 2012, from Francis Devine, author of the official history of SIPTU, and female activists, like Rosie Hackett, from Mary Muldowney, author and founder of the Oral History Network of Ireland. Audience participation welcome.

Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite, to unveil plaque on August 18th to 1911 Rail strikers shot in Liverpool

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 was on the edge of catastrophe. In response, 58,000 troops were mobilised across the country, and police were despatched wherever the Home Secretary, Winston Churchill, thought they were needed. Brutal force was employed. In Liverpool, troops opened fire on several occasions, and on Tuesday 15 August two men, John Sutcliffe and Michael Prendergast, were shot dead by the military in a disturbance onVauxhall Road.

As a permanent memorial to these two little-known martyrs of the Liverpooltrade union and labour movement, the North West TUC and the Casa have sponsored a plaque commemorating their sacrifice, situated on the site of the shootings.

MEET AT THE ELDONIAN VILLAGE HALL, VAUXHALL ROAD AT 10am SATURDAY 18 AUGUST 2012. TO BE FOLLOWED BY UNVEILING OF THEPLAQUE ON VAUXHALL ROAD

US Labour Pioneer Mother Jones to be celebrated in Cork

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

Photo Exhibition on Globalisation in Dublin

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…

Paradise in East Wall

 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 not for profit publishing house, features an introduction by Sarah Lundberg and Joe Mooney of the East Wall History Group. It will be launched by Caitriona Crowe of the National Archives at St Joseph’s Co-Ed National School, East Wall Road, at 7.30pm on Tuesday.

    Copies can be ordered direct from Seven Towers at:

http://www.seventowers.ie/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=445&Itemid=1

Click on ‘More’ tag to read Sarah Lundberg and Joe Mooney’s critique of the book, its long forgotten author and the community that inspired it (more…)

Larkin Hedge School Festival

larkinhedgeschool@gmail.com

Dockers Photographic Exhibition at Dublin Port Company HQ

This group pic was taken in the late 1940s or 1950s. Anyone would info should contact Society through Alan Melon link or Dublin Dockers Facebook page

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 23^rd). We would have posted earlier but the local response from East Wall and Ringsend was so strong it would have been impossible to squeeze any more people into the building.

However Eamon O’Reilly, the Dublin Port CEO, has agreed to give access to the Exhibition to the general public from Monday, March 26^th until Friday March 30^th, 9am to 4pm. It would be difficult to exaggerate the importance of this collection. Declan Byrne, who initiated the project and Alan Martin, who collated the collection have made a major contribution to saving an important part of Dublin’s legacy.

The Society’s next objective is to create a Dockers’ Museum.

For those unable to get to the exhibition all of the pics can be viewed on

http://www.bluemelon.com/alanmartin.