Save the Dates! The 11th Spirit of Mother Jones festival will be held in Shandon from Thursday, 28th July, until Saturday, 30th July!
All are welcome to attend.
James Nolan, the spokesperson for the festival, stated,
“We are absolutely delighted to announce that our annual Spirit of Mother Jones Festival will take place as usual in Shandon on the last weekend in July.
The dates for the three-day festival are from Thursday, 28th July, until Saturday, 30th July 2022.
We will continue to have a wide range of events on issues which we consider would be in the Spirit of Mother Jones.”
We hope to have a “real” festival at venues across Shandon, and while it is dependent on the Covid-19 position at the time, we are optimistic that we can make the festival happen.
Full details of our festival partnerships and many other events and plans will be announced over the spring and summer as they are confirmed.
*UPDATE* The 2022 Spirit of Mother Jones Festival was a big success. We returned to an “in-person” festival after the Corona years, and it was brilliant to meet our friends and supporters again. Here are the related articles from our website about the 2022 edition:
Festival Announcement and Programme
- Spirit of Mother Jones Festival Announcement for 2022.
- Spirit of Mother Jones Festival Programme.
- Thursday, 28th July 2022, at the Spirit of Mother Jones Festival.
- Friday, 29th July 2022, at the Spirit of Mother Jones Festival
- Saturday, 30th July 2022, at the Spirit of Mother Jones Festival
- Memories of the Spirit of Mother Jones Festival 2022
Recipient of the Spirit of Mother Jones Award
- Don O’Leary of the Cork Life Centre to receive the 2022 Spirit of Mother Jones Award.
- Presentation of Spirit of Mother Jones 2022 to Don O’Leary of the Cork Life Centre.
Speakers and Discussion at the Festival
- Historian Luke Dineen to speak at the Spirit of Mother Jones Festival 2022.
- Jimmy Crowley and Eve Telford To Appear at the Spirit of Mother Jones Festival 2022.
- “What would our health system be like now had Dr Noël Browne’s Mother and Child Scheme been successfully implemented?”
- Songs of Woody Guthrie for the 2022 festival.
- Stardust: They Never Came Home!
- A Message from Charlie Bird to Antoinette Keegan for the Spirit of Mother Jones Award 2020
- Discussion: A Trade Union Vision for a New and United Ireland.
- Discussion: ‘Dark Times, Dark Deeds, Long Shadows: the experiences of some women in the Revolutionary Years’
Documentaries at the festival
- Documentaries at the Spirit of Mother Jones Festival 2022.
- New Documentary: Ordinary Women in Extraordinary Times.
The Spirit of Mother Jones Festival 