The men will talk to me: Kerry interviews by Ernie O’Malley

The men will talk to me: Kerry interviews by Ernie O’Malley Cormac K.H. O’Malley and Tim Horgan (eds) (Mercier Press, €19.99) ISBN 9781856359528   The title of this collection conveys […]

Epilogue

Murphy’s later years were mainly spent in combating partition and conscription. The redoubtable lord mayor of Dublin (1917–24) Laurence O’Neill, a supporter of Larkin, described Murphy as the outstanding personality […]

Background

Big Jim Larkin was born on 28 January 1874 at 41 Combermere Street, in an Irish Catholic working-class enclave near the south-end docks in Liverpool. Both his parents came of […]

Groups participating

Irish Guild of Embroiderers Irish Patchwork Society Irish Countrywomen’s Association, Blanchardstown Finglas Arts Squad Divas Girls’ Group, Finglas Arts Centre RADE (Rehabilitation through Art, Drama and Education) Rowlagh Women’s Arts […]

The Great Lockout of 1913 by Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

James Larkin arrived in Ireland in 1907 to begin his union organising work. The first members were enrolled on 20 January 1909 in the new Irish Transport and General Workers’ […]