Lockout Dublin 1913
Lockout Dublin 1913

Author: Padraig Yeates

Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd

Published: 2000-11-07

Total Pages: 1004

ISBN-13: 0717153215

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On 26 August 1913 the trams stopped running in Dublin. Striking conductors and drivers, members of the Irish Transport Workers' Union, abandoned their vehicles. They had refused a demand from their employer, William Martin Murphy of the Dublin United Transport Company, to forswear union membership or face dismissal. The company then locked them out. Within a month, the charismatic union leader, James Larkin, had called out over 20,000 workers across the city in sympathetic action. By January 1914 the union had lost the battle, lacking the resources for a long campaign. But it won the war: 1913 meant that there was no going back to the horrors of pre-Larkin Dublin. This outstanding survey shows why: it has already established itself as the definitive work on the Lockout.

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Author: Commonwealth Shipping Committee

Publisher:

Published: 1914

Total Pages: 1030

ISBN-13:

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The ‘Labour Hercules’: The Irish Citizen Army and Irish Republicanism, 1913–23
The ‘Labour Hercules’: The Irish Citizen Army and Irish Republicanism, 1913–23

Author: Jeffrey Leddin

Publisher: Merrion Press

Published: 2019-03-20

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1788550765

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The Irish Citizen Army (ICA) was born from the Dublin Lockout of 1913, when industrialist William Martin Murphy ‘locked out’ workers who refused to resign from the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union, sparking one of the most dramatic industrial disputes in Irish history. Faced with threats of police brutality in response to the strike, James Connolly, James Larkin and Jack White established the ICA in the winter of 1913. By the end of March 1914, the ICA espoused republican ideology and that the ownership of Ireland was ‘vested of right in the people of Ireland’. The ICA was in the process of being totally transformed, going on to provide significant support to the IRA during the 1916 Rising. Despite Connolly’s execution and the internment of many ICA members, the ICA reorganised in 1917, subsequently developing networks for arms importation and ‘intelligence’, and later providing operative support for the War of Independence in Dublin. The most extensive survey of the movement to date, The ‘Labour Hercules’ explores the ICA’s evolution into a republican army and its legacy to the present day.

Sources for the Study of Crime in Ireland, 1801-1921
Sources for the Study of Crime in Ireland, 1801-1921

Author: Brian Griffin

Publisher: Four Courts Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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This book provides a summary of the contents of the documentary and published sources for the study of crime held in Irish and British repositories, offers suggestions on how to utilize these materials, and also discusses some of the practical problems and limitations in their use. The main focus is on material in Chief Secretary's Office Registered Papers, Outrage Reports, State of the Country Papers, Crown Files at Assizes, Chief Crown Solicitor's Papers, Crime Branch Special Papers and British Parliamentary Papers.