ILHS 2023 Conference Proceedings Volume

The Dublin launch of the proceedings of the 2023 ‘Visions of Labour and Class’ ILHS Conference took place in the Teachers Club on Wednesday 8th May. Edited by Jack McGinley and Noel Ward, the conference proceedings comes to 329 pages, with xxxiii pages of prelims, which includes 10 pages of colour images from the Conference. Copies can now be purchased from the Umiskin Press website here

A launch is planned to take place in Belfast in June (further details to follow). This important four day conference was supported by the wider trade union movement, Dublin City Council and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries 2012-23 initiative.

The collection includes a paper from our Patron, President Michael D Higgins, previously shared with invited ILHS members in the Aras in April 2023, in memory of Tom Johnson, and the planting of a tree to celebrate 50 years of the ILHS.