A fascinating piece of history has come to light thanks to an Irish Times reader who forwarded a copy of a unique document to Frank McNally after his article on the Mother Jones festival in the newspaper last week which referred to the story of Alderman Tadhg Barry who was shot dead at Ballykinlar Internment … Continue reading Tadhg Barry signature
Month: July 2013
Hillsborough, the torment of injustice
The Annual service of remembrance brings the families and friends of the 96 men, women and children who were killed at Hillsborough to Anfield each year. (95 died on that day and one later). The thousands, who attend the service, fall silent at 3.06 on the 15th April. It was the exact time that the … Continue reading Hillsborough, the torment of injustice
Solidarity Across the Ocean
An extraordinary gathering of Women Coal Miners will take place in Tennessee in the United States from August 2nd. Large numbers of women miners from the US, Canada and Britain will come together for a reunion in Jonesborough, near the Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee University. On August 1st, Mother Jones Day in Cork, … Continue reading Solidarity Across the Ocean
Dublin 1913 Lock-out Centenary
Padraig Yeates is an acknowledged authority on the history of the 1913 Dublin Lockout, a major industrial dispute which pitted Dublin's employers led by William Martin Murphy against more than 20,000 workers, led by Big Jim Larkin, who were sacked for their membership of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITG&WU). 1913 can be … Continue reading Dublin 1913 Lock-out Centenary
More on Tadhg Barry
There has been a lot of interest following our article on Tadhg Barry and the piece on him in today's Irish Times (see http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/locked-out-of-history-1.1473824) Among those who contacted our committee was Tadhg Barry Galvin, a grand-nephew of Tadhg Barry now living in England. Tadhg sent us the above photo of him presenting booklet on his grand-uncle … Continue reading More on Tadhg Barry
Mother Jones Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0sIOeaF-z0&w=640&h=360 Hank Wedel is one of the best known musicians on the Cork scene and beyond. Born in the US in the 1960s Hank grew up in New York City and Mallow, Co. Cork in the ‘70s, he lived for awhile in NYC in the ’80s and ’90s but is based in Cork City Hank … Continue reading Mother Jones Music
Vita Cortex documentary to feature at Mother Jones Festival
A documentary on the lengthy struggle of the Vita Cortex workers will be shown at the Mother Jones Festival in Cork on Wednesday, 31st July. The workers sit-in at the Vita Cortex factory has already gone down in the annals of Cork’s long history of worker’s struggle. The 161 day long occupation of the plant … Continue reading Vita Cortex documentary to feature at Mother Jones Festival
The Cork Lockout of 1909
The Cork Strike and Lockout. Cork Historian Luke Dineen will give an account of a little remembered dispute in Cork in 1909, which had an influence on the later Dublin Lockout of 1913. Luke will speak at the Firkin Crane on Wednesday 31st July at 2pm. On Thursday June 10th 1909 some coal porters affiliated … Continue reading The Cork Lockout of 1909
Film on Tadhg Barry to screen at Mother Jones event
A recently launched documentary film on the life of Cork trade unionist, Irish republican and socialist Tadhg Barry is to feature at the Spirit of Mother Jones Festival on Wednesday, 31st January. It will be shown at the Firkin Crane theatre at 12.00 Noon. Barry, a city alderman on Cork Corporation, was shot dead at … Continue reading Film on Tadhg Barry to screen at Mother Jones event
“Mother Jones – Sinner and Saint”
Prof. Simon Cordery Professor Simon Cordery will be the main speaker on the final day of our festival this year, Thursday 1st August (Mother Jones Day). Simon is Chair of the History Department at West Illinois University and Author of "Mother Jones, raising cain and consciousness" Below is a short article by Simon and a … Continue reading “Mother Jones – Sinner and Saint”
