by | Feb 2, 2026 | History, Latest News Home, The Sunday Read
It was the sight of an infant huddled beside its dead mother in the slums of Liverpool that awoke in the young Jim Larkin a great passion to struggle against injustice. As Jim’s granddaughter, Stella Larkin McConnon, recalls: “He was giving a hand with some work when...
by | Aug 10, 2025 | History, The Sunday Read
Wexford’s industrialised character was unique in southern Ireland and derived from the town’s seafaring and trading links with Bristol. The foundry industry had become well established in the town by the end of the nineteenth century. In June 1911, dockworkers became...
by | Apr 22, 2025 | History, Latest News Home
The men who printed the Proclamation — the printer or pressman Christopher Brady, and compositors Liam O’Brien and Michael Molloy — were ITGWU employees producing The Workers’ Republic and workaday union print jobs. All were members of the Dublin Typographical...
by | Apr 21, 2025 | Education, History, The Sunday Read
In the weeks leading up to the Easter Rising, the police raided Liberty Hall. In response, the Irish Citizen Army was mobilised across Dublin. James O’Shea remembered how “all jobs stopped (with) men running out of foundries, fitting shops, forges and building jobs....
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...
