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112 years later, the Dublin Lockout of 1913 remains a fundamental experience in Irish and British Labour history. Jim Larkin and James Connolly led over 20,000 workers and their 80,000 dependants in an eight-month struggle, and while it ended in defeat by the bosses, the state, and
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Chris Beausang, writer and socialist activist, revisits the politics of the signatories to the 1916 proclamation highlighting the sharp differences between Connolly’s revolutionary socialism and the nationalism of Pearse and others. In Easter 1916 over one thousand members of the IrishVolunteers and Irish Citizen Army seized a number of
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As we move through an Easter week like no other in living memory, Shaun Harkin analyses the importance of another Easter week in Ireland’s past, and the lessons it holds for today’s world. Easter 2020 will be etched into our collective psyche like no other in recent memory.
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Ireland in the early 20th century was a hotbed of revolutionary activity, and James Connolly was central to it. Historian Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh charts James Connolly’s unique political perspective and argues that he provides crucial lessons for the struggles of today. Referring to the veneration of Wolfe Tone by
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Focusing on the political influences of the time, and the impact these women had on the political movements they were part of, Mary Smith looks back at the women of Ireland’s Easter Rising, seeking to add to the long neglected ‘herstory’ of the period. Mollie O’Reilly was sent