The formal Launch of the Spirit of Mother Jones Festival 2022 will take place at the Shandon Butter Market Garden on Friday 1st July at 1pm.
Our eleventh annual festival takes place from Thursday 28th July until Saturday 30th July and contains a full programme of events, both indoors and outdoors.
According to Jim Nolan of the Cork Mother Jones Committee
“We will have over 20 events ranging from talks and lively discussions, to walks and exhibitions, to presentations of awards and toasts as well as singing, poetry and music.
We wish to thank our sponsors in particular the Cork City Council, the SIPTU trade union, the ASTI Trade union and IFUT. With their assistance, it is possible to maintain the festival free and open to all.
Highlights will include the screening of the Shandon Area History Group/Frameworks Films documentary ‘Ordinary Women in Extraordinary Times’ at the Dance Cork Firkin Crane Theatre on Friday night.
Of special interest this year will be the visit of Antoinette Keegan, whose two sisters Mary and Martina died in the Stardust Fire tragedy in 1981. Christine her mother and John her father were instrumental in establishing the campaign of the Stardust Victims to seek justice for their loved ones over the past 40 years. Antoinette was will be presented with the 2020 Spirit of Mother Jones Award in person on Friday afternoon 29th July at 3pm.
We hope the people of Cork will come along and show their support to the victims and survivors of the Stardust tragedy in their efforts to attain justice.
After two years in which the festival went online, we are very much looking forward to meeting people again, whether they are regulars or dropping in for the first time to the festival, all will be welcome at Shandon.”
All events are free and all are welcome. (But come along early)
The Spirit of Mother Jones Festival 
I am very happy to receive the schedule. Thank you for it. Please bear with my ignorance – I don’t understand the notations of F, L, and M beside the offerings. Can you explain them to me?Thank you,Monica FarringtonVermont, USA
Hi Monica,
F is for film, L is for lecture, and M is for music.
Hope that’s OK.
Enjoy.
A great program for the Mother Jones Festival 2022! All the best to those who put the hard work in to make this weekend special. With you in spirit from across the sea in Springfield, Illinois, near Mother Jones last resting place.
Thanks Terry. We appreciate your comments and your interest in our regular postings. Just to acknowledge that you have been looking after Mother Jones a lot longer then we have, but we are trying to make up for lost time in Cork City. Ger.