Written and performed by Kaiulani Lee.

Irish Premiere: Dance Cork Firkin Crane, Thursday 25th July at 4pm. 

“We were never supposed to know her name. She was a poor Irish immigrant who survived famine and war, fire and plague. Unable to save her husband and four very young children, she dedicated her life to saving working families everywhere. The “robber barons” called her “the most dangerous woman in America” but the workers called her Mother Jones.”

And she asked the workers to pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.  This documentary has been adapted from Obie Award-winning actress Kaiulani Lee’s one-woman play “Can’t Scare Me” Kaiulani performed at the Firkin Crane Theatre back in July 2015 and visited Cork city for the inaugural festival in August 2012. Kaiulani lives Mother Jones.

Length: 55 minutes.

The performance is drawn from the 1925 autobiography of Mother Jones as well as her letters, speeches and interviews.