Nick Maxwell Since his release from Sing Sing, Big Jim had been thinking of a commercial deal with Moscow. A sinecure in a Soviet-backed cooperative in Dublin or a Soviet–Irish shipping line would allow him to survive comfortably in Ireland as a freelance agitator. The Soviets were very interested, provided that Jim would lead an Irish communist … Read more
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 tenant farmer stock from around Newry, and Jim would claim that his father and uncles had been Fenians. The second of six children, he grew … Read more
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 Group Cherry Orchard Art Group Gala Group, Ringsend Mater Dei Primary School, Basin Lane Larkin Community College St Louis High School, Rathmines Central Remedial Clinic … Read more
2013 is the centenary of the 1913 Lockout (as should be obvious from our special issue!), but what many will consider to be the big one is on the horizon already. Every day at 2.30pm, between now and mid-September, Glasnevin Cemetery is hosting a re-enactment of Patrick Pearse’s famous (or infamous) oration at the grave … Read more
Sat 11am Chester Beatty Library atrium, Dublin Castle. Intercultural tour with community ambassador: Irish language tour, Jack FitzGerald.