Neighbour’s Children in Cork. Mick Lynch speaks about his Irish Roots and Mother Jones.

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Mother Jones (Joan Goggin) meeting with Mick Lynch, General Secretary of the RMT Union at the 2023 Spirit of Mother Jones Festival.

Mother Jones with Mick Lynch.

Joan’s dad, Bill Martin was a branch secretary of the ITGWU for several years. When Jim Larkin visited Cork, he usually called to the Martin family home on Bandon Road for a meal and a chat.

Just a short distance down Bandon Road near Warren’s Lane was the family home of the Lynch family. Mick Lynch’s dad, Jackie Lynch emigrated from Bandon Road to London at the beginning of the Second World War.

Labour history resonates among neighbour’s children.

Watch interview between Emma Bowell of Frameworks Films with Mick Lynch at the 2023 Spirit of Mother Jones Festival.

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  1. These family connections of those years produced life long values which societies benefited greatly from with leaders amongst us who called it as it was, hence the high level of trust and respect that galvanized for the getting of sufficient support for the important issues that needed many volunteers.

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