Brian Hanley asks whether commemoration of the Lockout means that awkward questions about class and power in Ireland are ignored. Over the weekend of 30–31 August 1913, a few days into what was to become a five-month-long lockout, the Dublin Metropolitan Police ran amok across inner-city Dublin, attacking strikers and their supporters. Two men died … Read more
The 1913 Lockout Tapestry is an ambitious, large-scale, collaborative visual arts project to commemorate the Dublin Lockout. During this epic struggle an estimated 100,000 people, one third of the capital’s inhabitants, faced starvation for five months in a battle for workers’ rights. The Lockout of 1913 is unique in the ‘decade of centenaries’ that we … Read more
ISBN : 9781406427035 Author : Karl Brady, Charise McKeon, James Lyttleton, Ian Lawler Subjects : Underwater archaeology, shopwrecks Publication Details : 26 October 2012 Publisher : ( Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht ) Price: €25.00 As an island nation, Irish people are used to looking out to sea, following the ever-changing weather … Read more
My guardian told me a story about one of his adventures in the boarding house of the school that he used to study. This story is around the 1970s in Galway. He explained me that in this boarding house at lunch time, the cookers always put potatoes in each table of the canteen, the potatoes … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20130507-HistoryIrelandShow-022-UlsterCovenant1912.mp3″] Click the Play button to listen To download file, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Ulster Covenant 1912: an exerc A History Ireland Hedge School recorded at the National Library on 28 November 2012 with Peter Collins (St Mary’s Belfast), Tom Hartley (Sinn Féin), Brian Kennaway (Irish Association) and Philip … Read more