Lockout: biased media on both sides
Cartoon sketches satirised both James Larkin and William Martin Murphy
A lion come to rest
James Larkin: Lion of the Fold edited by Donal Nevin Gill & Macmillan, in association with RTE and SIPTU 557pp, £9.99
November 24th, 1913
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Jim Larkin toured Britain unsuccessfully during the 1913 lockout seeking sympathetic strikes and addressing…
Is 'Strumpet City' the great Irish novel?
Plunkett possessed an honourable social consciousness, and endures as an artist through his great Dublin novel, writes EILEEN…
All sacrifices of people 100 years ago must be honoured
OPINION: Home Rule and the Dublin Lockout should be commemorated as well as the Rising
From the archives: October 22nd, 1913
The role of English trade unions in the 1913 Lockout, culminating in the attempt to bring starving Irish children to England, …
OCTOBER 23RD, 1913: Deciding fate of children during Lockout
The 1913 Lockout raised all sorts of subsidiary political and social tensions in Dublin in addition to the no-holds-barred confrontation…
When Larkin's 'divine mission of discontent' roused the Dublin slums
Ninety years ago, the trams stopped in Dublin and opened the longestindustrial dispute in Irish history, writes Pádraig Yeates…
Larkin's labour of love
What an unexpected pleasure to discover that the 1913 Lockout is now the subject of a major study
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