Spirit of Mother Jones Festival Programme and Festival Poster 2025.
The festival will be held in and around the Shandon Historic Quarter from Thursday, July 24th, until Saturday, July 26th, 2025, inclusive. It will be organised by the Cork Mother Jones Committee 2025, an independent, voluntary, community-based committee. The festival is dedicated to the memory of Mary Harris/Mother Jones and to inspirational people everywhere who fight for social justice, workers’ rights, and human rights. This festival celebrates her spirit.
The festival and summer school will consist of talks, discussions, songs, music, films and documentaries. We hope to make them interesting, challenging and relevant.
The venues are Dance Cork Firkin Crane and Maldron Hotel, Shandon and both venues are very close to each other on John Redmond Street, which is itself about 5 minutes walk from the Cork Opera House and Christy Ring Bridge.
All are welcome to attend the 2025 Spirit of Mother Jones Festival and Summer School. The events are informal and free, thanks to the support of the trade union movement, the Cork City Council, Cathedral Credit Union and local businesses. Attendance at each event is on a first-come, first-seated basis, so booking is unnecessary.
We look forward to seeing you.
The 2025 Spirit of Mother Jones Festival Dates Announced.
The Cork Mother Jones Committee wishes to announce that the 2025 Spirit of Mother Jones Festival will take place in and around the Shandon Historic Quarter over three days from Thursday, July 24th, until Saturday, July 26th.
According to James Nolan, spokesperson for the festival,
“We are delighted to confirm that our 14th Annual Spirit of Mother Jones Festival will once again be held in Shandon in 2025. This unique festival is dedicated to labour leader Mother Jones and has become an eagerly awaited festival and summer school in Cork each year. It is entirely organised by a voluntary committee and attracts huge crowds to our community annually.
We appreciate the support of the Irish trade union movement and the Cork City Council, along with local businesses, which enables the festival to remain free and open to everyone who wishes to attend. We will announce participants and speakers over the next months, but we promise that our emphasis will, uniquely among summer schools, remain on heritage, history, trade union rights, social & climate justice and human rights issues, all matters close to the heart and rebel spirit of Cork-born Mary Harris.”
The Cork Mother Jones committee is asking people to suggest ideas for topics, possible speakers or issues they might wish to see at the 2025 festival.
Proposals should be based on material which is relevant, interesting and challenging and we promise to consider all suggestions.
They should be sent to motherjonescork@gmail.com.
Further details can be found on www.motherjonescork.com
