Festival 2022 Programme

 2:00 p.m.            Frameworks Films, documentary

•                                     Mother Jones and Her Children
•                                     Maldron Hotel, Shandon

3:00 p.m.          Rosemary Feurer, documentary

•                                     Mother Jones, America’s Most Dangerous Woman
•                                     Maldron Hotel, Shandon                    

4:00 p.m.          Peter Buckingham tells the story of

•                          Red Tom Hickey: The Uncrowned King of Texas Socialism – and
•                          Mother Jones
•                          Maldron Hotel, Shandon

5:30 p.m.       Official festival opening by the Lord Mayor of Cork

• Joan Goggin presents a poetic tribute to Jim Larkin (1874-1947)
• Maldron Hotel, Shandon

7:15 p.m.         Cork City Council and St Peter’s Cork present a documentary:

• Endurance and Engagement – Cork City Women in the 1920s
• Introduced by Christine Moloney
• Dance Cork Firkin Theatre

8:00 p.m.         Anne Twomey

• speaks of “Dark Times, Dark Deeds, Long Shadows:
• the experiences of some women in the Revolutionary Years”
• Dance Cork Firkin Theatre

9:30 p.m.        The Cork Singers’ Club. Maldron Hotel Shandon

Can’t make the festival? Cork Community TV will show a series of talks from the Mother Jones Festival Archives all this coming weekend. Check out www.corkcommunitytv.ie or Virgin Media Channel 803.