Saothar 37

€20.00

2012 issue

Contents

• Editorial: Labour and the ‘decade of centenaries’;
• Niall Whelehan – Labour and agrarian violence in the Irish midlands, 1850-1870;
• John O’Donovan – Class, conflict and the United Irish League in Cork, 1900-1903;
• Emmet O’Connor – Taking its natural place: Labour and the third Home Rule crisis, 1912-14;
• Seán Byers – Seán Murray’s political apprenticeship: the making of an Irish Republican Bolshevik;
• Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh – Irish Nurses, Emerging States, and Trade Unions, 1918-39;
• Barry Whelan – Ireland’s Minister in Spain – L. H. Kerney’s diplomatic efforts to secure the release of Frank Ryan;
• Giulia ní Dhulchaointigh – Irish women domestic servants in London, c. 1901 (Saothar student prize for labour history);
• Brendan Byrne – Labour lives, no. 14: Thomas Kain, 1886-1948;
• Donal Ó Drisceoil – Bernadette: notes on a poliiical journey (film review);
• Tony Varley – Irish labour’s quest for greater power (essays in review);
• Conor McCabe – The city on the edge of empire (essays in review);
• Reviews;
• Events;
• Obituaries;
• Irish Labour History Society, 2011;