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 Dublin Lockout, 1913
The Dublin Lockout, 1913

Author: Conor McNamara

Publisher: Merrion Press

Published: 2017-07-24

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1911024825

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Putting Ireland on trial, Jim Larkin’s verdict was damning and resolute. His words resound, shuddering towards the present day where class division and workers’ rights disputes make headlines with swelling frequency. In this pioneering collection, an exemplary list of contributors registers the radical momentum within Dublin in 1913, its effects internationally, and its paramount example in shaping political activism within Ireland to this day. The narrative of the beleaguered yet dignified workers who stood up to the greed of their Irish masters is examined, revealing the truths that were too fraught with trauma, shame and political tension to remain within popular memory. Beyond the animosity and immediate impact of the industrial dispute are its enduring lessons through the First World War, the Easter Rising, and the birth of the Irish Free State; its legacy, real and adopted, instructs the surge of activism currently witnessed, but to what effect? The Dublin Lockout, 1913 illuminates this pivotal class war in Irish history: inspiring, shocking, and the nearest thing Ireland had to a debate on the type of society that was wanted by its citizens.

To Hell or Monto
To Hell or Monto

Author: Maurice Curtis

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2015-04-06

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0750964766

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There was a time when the two most notorious red-light districts not only in Ireland but in all of Europe could be found on the streets of Dublin. Though the name of Monto has endured long in folk memory, the area known as Hell was equally notorious, feared and renowned in its day. In this new work by Maurice Curtis explores the histories of these dark remnants of Dublin’s past, complete with their gambling, dueling and vice, their rowdy taverns and houses of ill repute.

LABOUR v. SINN FEIN. The Dublin General Strike 1913/14 - The Lost Revolution
LABOUR v. SINN FEIN. The Dublin General Strike 1913/14 - The Lost Revolution

Author: Terry McCarthy

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 095569230X

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What terrified the State, employers, and major elements of the British Trades Union and Labour Movement was that the Dublin strikers were linked to an armed force of workers, the Citizens' Army. This was alien to any preceding political or industrial dispute. It was the first time in Ireland's, and Britain's, history that the main protagonists against the State were socialists, and indeed armed ones. British intelligence warned of the dangers of this strike, noting that this was not just an industrial dispute, and, if left its own devices, could lead to a Socialist revolution that might spread to the mainland. This fascinating period saw Sinn Fein, who were vehemently opposed to the strike, transformed during the unrest from a fringe group to a major party at the expense of Labour and socialism.