The Attempt To Smash The Irish Transport And General Workers Union has been newly added to this website. The Irish Labour History Society has just added this important 1924 partisan account of the split in the ITGWU to our website here. This split, following Larkin’s return from the United States of America in April 1923, […]
A City of Strikes The Cork General Lockout of 1909 Now Available For Sale! The latest Irish Labour History Society publication, A City of Strikes The Cork General Lockout of 1909 by Society member Dr Luke Dineen was recently launched. It is an important study of an often overlooked episode in Irish labour history, examining […]
The John Halstead Memorial Lecture On Jim Larkin Dr Emmet O’Connor delivered the first John Halstead Memorial Lecture, organised by the UK Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH), on Saturday 29 October 2022. Titled “How British was Big Jim Larkin? How International was Larkinism?” the talk is now available to view online on […]
Welcome to the brand new Irish Labour History Society (ILHS) website! The site launched in September 2022, following receipt of a grant from the Heritage Council under the Community Heritage Grants Scheme 2022. The new website aims to enhance access to the unique collections held in our premises in Beggars Bush, Dublin through making digitised […]
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