The original Sgt. Pepper album cover from 1967
Beatles Album cover designer Jann Haworth includes Mother Jones in her latest mural creation.
Cork woman Mother Jones has been included among the women icons in the Work in Progress Celebrating Women Who are Catalysts for Change mural featuring the faces of more than 100 influential women which have either been written out of history or marginalised.
This mural has been designed in Utah in America by Jann Hayworth and her daughter Liberty Blake.
Jann Haworth and her husband Peter Blake designed the famous album cover of the Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band back in 1967, arguably the best remembered LP Album cover of all time.
This Beatles album spent 27 weeks at the top of the British charts and featured such songs as Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, When I’m Sixty-Four, A little Help from my Friends and A Day in the Life!
The recent Work in Progress mural consists of seven panels is 28 foot long and 8 foot wide has been on display at various cities in America and is now on its way to the UK where it will be on display at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester from November 2nd.
The Cork Mother Jones committee recently noticed that an image matching Mother Jones was on the front row of panel two of Work In Progress, so we contacted both Jann Hayworth and Liberty Blake directly who confirmed that Mother Jones is indeed featured in the mural.
Jann explained that she was a fervent admirer of Mother Jones and held her in high esteem due to her Irish great grandmother and was more than happy to include Mother Jones among those women in history whom she regards as catalysts for positive change in society.”
The new mural featuring Mother Jones to the left of the second panel. Courtesy of Jann Haworth and Liberty Blake.
Among the 100 or so women listed and portrayed in the Catalysts for Change mural alongside Mother Jones are Anne Frank, Michelle Obama, Marie Curie, Rachel Carson, Helen Keller and Mother Teresa and many others. (See workinprogressmural.org)
It should be noted that Mother Jones was also included by Jann Haworth in a permanent public civic Wall Mural alongside Martin Luther King and Gandhi in downtown Salt Lake City in Utah in 2004. This is known as the SLC Pepper mural and is an updated version of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band cover.
The 2004 image in Salt LakeCity, Utah
Maybe one day soon the Catalysts for Change exhibition might be displayed in Cork city?
The Spirit of Mother Jones Festival 
I see her in the picture. My Grandfather was involved with her in the Cabin Creek, Charleston, Marmet and the Miner War. Where the Government bomb 💣 the Miners. Such a Horrible Act. Should be investigated and the People in the Government punished even though they are Dead!!! The truth must be told; it was done to Whites, Blacks, Asians and Indians. Were killed!! Amen 🙏
Interesting comment. We are looking to discuss the 100th anniversary in 2021 of the Battle of Blair Mountain at the spirit of Mother Jones next year.
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I see her in the picture. My Grandfather was involved with her in the Cabin Creek, Charleston, Marmet and the Miner War. Where the Government bomb 💣 the Miners. Such a Horrible Act. Should be investigated and the People in the Government punished even though they are Dead!!! The truth must be told; it was done to Whites, Blacks, Asians and Indians. Were killed!! Amen 🙏