Cork Mother Jones Commemorative Committee
Mother Jones Monument rededicated June 20, 2015 Mount Olive, Illinois – the following report of the rededication at Mount Olive Miners Cemetery has been sent to the Cork Mother Jones Committee by Terry Reed , Field Services Director, of the Illinois Federation of Teachers http://www.ift-aft-org. In the […]
The formal launch of the Spirit of Mother Jones Festival and Summer School takes place at the Maldron Hotel on Thursday July 2nd at 1pm. All are welcome to come along as the fantastic programme of events for 29th July to 1st August 2015 is announced. The full […]
By Chris Mullin During his long political career Tony Benn went through many incarnations: pillar of the Labour establishment, Cabinet minister, tabloid bogeyman, and serial dissident…national treasure. Former Labour minister and fellow diarist, Chris Mullin, for 35 years one of one of Benn’s closest friends,offers a sympathetic […]
On Saturday 1st August the Cork Mother Jones Committee is privileged to present the film A Sense ofWonder with the kind permission of Kaiulani Lee. The film showing will take place at the Maldron Hotel at 2.30pm. When biologist and author Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring in 1962, little […]
Chris Mullin will appear at the Spirit of Mother Jones Festival on Thursday 30th July 2015 at 7.15pm at the Firkin Crane. The campaign to free the six innocent men convicted of the Birmingham pub bombings has been described as “one of the greatest feats ever achieved by […]
Our friends at the Mother Jones Museum in Mount Olive, Illinois, USA will be holding an Open Day there on Saturday, 20th June following the rededication of the Mother Jones memorial at the Union Miner’s Cemetery in Mount Olive where Mother Jones is buried. The Open Day will […]
The Spirit of Mother Jones festival will include a series of lectures exploring the origins and role of the Irish Citizen Army, a workers army, in the Easter 1916 rebellion. The venue for the lectures will be the Firkin Crane, Shandon, Cork. Date and Time: Friday, 31st […]
Mother Jones And Her Children is a 52 minute long documentary which outlines the extraordinary life and activities of the most famous Cork woman in America. Produced by Emma Bowell and Eddie Noonan of Cork based Frameworks Films (www.frameworksfilms.com) in cooperation with the Cork Mother Jones Committee. Highly recommended. DVDs (€10 each) are available from Jim Nolan at 22/23 Shandon Street, Cork. DVDs incl.package and postage within Ireland are €12 each. Package and postage to UK, Europe or USA €14 each. For bulk purchases, contact Jim on 086 1651356. Send postal order or euro draft or euro cheque payable to Cork Mother Jones Committee to above address.
