Festival Programme 2013

Tuesday July 30^th

3pm to 9pm         Mother Jones Exhibition                           Shandon Quarter Ex. Center

7pm                    Hillsborough: “The long fight for Justice”   Firkin Crane Centre

Speaker: Margaret Aspinall

Hillsborough Family Support

Group.

9.30pm                 The Cork Singers Club                                      Maldron Hotel.

Wednesday July 31^st

9am to 9pm           Mother Jones Exhibition                                  Shandon Quarter Ex. Centre

2pm                     116 Days: The Vita Cortex Workers          Maldron Hotel

Struggle; a film by Declan O’Connell.

3.30.                       Slavery on our Seas                                   Firkin Crane Centre  (downstairs)

Speaker: Ken Fleming of the International Transport Federation

7.00                        The Dublin Lockout: The Centenary.      Firkin Crane Centre (upstairs)

                             Speaker: Padraig Yeates,     Writer, journalist and historian

.

8.30                        “Jim Larkin speaks” with Jer O’Leary      Firkin Crane Centre.

9.00                        The Mother Jones Commemoration

                               Concert with Richard T.Cooke and friends.      Firkin Crane Centre.

10.00                       Hank Wedel and Friends                           Maldron Hotel

Thursday 1^st August,

 

 

Mother Jones Day.

 

 

 9.00                        Mother Jones Exhibition.                                   Shandon Quarter Centre

 

11.00                       “Mother Jones, the most dangerous woman in America        Maldron Hotel

(a film by Rosemary Fuerer)

11.45                      Remembering Mother Jones Festival 2012         Maldron Hotel

(a film by Framework Films)

3.00                        The 2013 Mother Jones Lecture                          Firkin Crane Centre (downstairs)

Speaker: Professor Simon Cordery.

Chair of History, Western Illinois University.

Author: Mother Jones, Raising Cain and

Consciousness

7.00                        Mother Jones Tribute.                                 Mother Jones Plaque

March past of Union Banners:

Butter Exchange Band Tribute to Mother

Jones.

Presentation of Mother Jones Award.

8.30                        Concert with Andy Irvine                                  Firkin Crane Centre

10.00                     Music, Two Time Polka,                                      Maldron Hotel.