The Spirit of Mother Jones Festival will take place online on Cork Community Television from Thursday 25th November 2021 until Sunday 28th November 2021. We are hoping to have a number of live events, including Q&A’s with the interviewees as well as some live music at the Maldron Hotel in Shandon during the course of the Festival. These are subject strictly to the Covid 19 regulations specified at the time and the attendance will be limited.

Thursday 25^th November – Sunday 28^th November 2021

Programme of online events on Cork Community Television.

Thursday 25th November 2021

• 2:00 pm. The highlights of the 2020 online Spirit of Mother Jones Festival.

• 7.30 pm. Muriel MacSwiney………The Unlikely Revolutionary.                                     An interview with Anne Twomey, historian and teacher, of the Shandon Area History Group.

Friday 26th November 2021

• 2:00 pm.  The highlights of the first ten years of the Spirit of Mother Jones festivals.

• 7.00 pm. Commemorating the 100^th Anniversary of the death of Tadhg Barry, of Blarney Street.

                       Tadhg Barry Remembered. Documentary by Cork Council of Trade Unions and Frameworks Films.

• 8.00 pm. Interview with Dr. Donal O’Drisceoil

                       Author of Utter Disloyalist: Tadhg Barry and The Irish Revolution.

Saturday 27th November 2021.

• 2:00 pm. Blood on the Mountain produced by Mari-Lynn Evans.

• 4:00 pm. Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre produced by Lamprini C Tomas and Nickos Ventouras.

• 6:00 pm. Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America by Rosemary Feurer.

• 6:30 pm. Interview (zoom) with Mari Steed, Adoption Rights campaigner.

• 7:00pm. Maureen Considine and Catherine Coffey O’Brien of the Cork Survivors and Supporters Alliance, CSSA discuss their effort to safeguard the Bessborough Burial ground.

Sunday 28th November 2021

• 2:00 pm. The Mine Wars produced and directed by Randall MacLowry.

• 4:00 pm. Mother Jones and Her Children by Frameworks Films.

• 7:00 pm. Dr. Sean Pettit…….An Extraordinary Teacher with an introduction by Richard T Cooke. This film features Sean’s final presentation “The Cork City of Mary Harris” at    the Spirit of Mother Jones Festival on 29^th July 2016.

• 8:00 pm. The Songs of Mother Jones.

Featuring Māire Ní Chēilleachair, Karan Casey, William Hammond, Mags Creedon,   Richard T Cooke, John Murphy, John & Gearoid Nyhan and Mick Treacy.

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These events will feature on Cork Community Television at http://www.corkcommunitytv.ie or Virgin Media Channel 803.

The 2021 Spirit of Mother Jones Festival will also include Q&A sessions with the speakers at the Maldron Hotel after the broadcasts on Cork Community Television. The capacity is strictly limited in accordance with the Covid-19 regulations for the safety of participants.  Full details on how to attend will be announced later.