‘An inspiration to all who gaze upon it’

Speaking at the golden jubilee meeting of the Workers’ Union of Ireland (WUI) in September 1974, historian F.X. Martin supported the union’s attempt to have a monument erected on Dublin’s O’Connell Street in memory of James Larkin, the WUI’s inaugural general secretary from 1924 to 1947: ‘This burly, brass-throated orator with the magnificent frame which ... Read more

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