The 8th Annual Spirit of Mother Jones Festival and Summer School opens in the Shandon area on the northside of Cork city today.

Events at the Spirit of Mother Jones Festival on Wednesday 31^st July 2019.

10:30 a.m.  F   A film by Rosemary Feurer.

Mother Jones: America’s Most Dangerous Woman             

                        Cathedral Visitor Centre

11:00 a.m.   F  Frameworks Films

                        Mother Jones and Her Children.    Cathedral Visitor Centre

12: 30 a.m.     The March of the Mill Children pageant at Shandon Plaza.

(With the assistance of Cork Community Art Link.)

1:30 p.m.        Official festival opening by the Lord Mayor of Cork at Maldron Hotel, Shandon

3:00 p.m.   L   Séan Ó Tuathaigh 

“Outlanders – Stories of the Displaced”.  Cathedral Visitor Centre

7: 00 p.m.  L   Joe Creedon

                      “Ellen Cotter, the mother of Mary Harris, and Inchigeelagh in the early 1800s”

Firkin Crane Theatre

8:00 p.m   L   Professor Elliott Gorn. (Author of Mother Jones…..the Most Dangerous Woman in America)

“The story of Mother Jones”   

                        Firkin Crane Theatre

9:30 p.m.  M   The Cork Singers’ Club

                        Maldron Hotel, Shandon.