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 | Feb 1, 2026 | Latest News Home, The Sunday Read
A silent coup by a billionaire elite is rolling back hard-won progress, exacerbating inequality, and hollowing out democracy. As we face this modern counter-revolution, Larkin’s ‘Divine Gospel of Discontent’ is not a historical artefact, but an urgent manifesto writes...
by | Dec 7, 2025 | The Sunday Read
Back in 2009, I wrote that our South Africa moment was nearing. Despite the US-Israeli livestreamed genocide against over two million Palestinians in the illegally occupied and besieged Gaza Strip, I now think this moment is nearer than ever because the BDS movement...
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 | Jun 14, 2025 | Latest News Home, The Sunday Read
Last Thursday evening at the launch of Jim Fitzpatrick’s powerful new portrait of Elizabeth O’Farrell, SIPTU Deputy General Secretary Ethel Buckley delivered a stirring speech that reclaimed the legacy of one of 1916’s most overlooked...
by | May 11, 2025 | Latest News, Latest News Home, The Sunday Read
At the annual James Connolly commemoration, SIPTU’s Adrian Kane delivered a stirring call to action, asking a question that haunts our movement: Where have all the revolutionaries gone? Standing at the graveside of Ireland’s rebel dead, Kane reflected on Connolly’s...
