by | Jan 19, 2025 | Education, History, Latest News, The Sunday Read
The Great Dublin Lockout remains the seminal event in the history of the Irish working class. That epic struggle also ranks as one of the great battles in the history of the workers’ movement internationally. Until recently, it was viewed as some kind of curtain...
by | Jan 3, 2025 | History
Trade union badges first became commonplace with the rise of the ‘New Unionism’ of the 1890s among the previously unorganised dockers, carters and general workers in Britain and Ireland. In order to ensure union members were given preferential treatment at the dock...
by | Jan 2, 2025 | History
SIPTU was established in 1990 – with the merger of the country’s two largest unions, the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union and the Federated Workers’ Union of Ireland. Both were founded by ‘Big’ Jim Larkin in the early years of the twentieth century. Until...
by | Sep 7, 2024 | History, Latest News, The Sunday Read
Nestled in the sleepy countryside of county Leitrim, Effrinagh is a small village that holds a significant place in the hearts of many Irish trade unionists. Its picturesque green fields and winding country roads charmingly disguise its importance as the birthplace of...
by | Sep 1, 2024 | History, Latest News
What women’s voices do we hear from the Lockout narrative? Perhaps the best known, in 2013 terms, would be that of Rosie Hackett, the meek-looking and tiny Jacob’s biscuit factory worker, trade unionist and protester. For long an unsung hero of the Dublin Lockout and...
by | Aug 30, 2024 | History
A small portrait drawing of the first of these martyrs, 33-year-old labourer James Nolan, appeared in the 3rd September 1913 issue of the Irish Independent. It does not appear to have been published since. Rather than being a “Lockout Martyr”, the North Strand man was...
