Saothar 50
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2025 issue
Contents
Secretary’s Report: Irish Labour History Society 2024
Anniversary Reflections
Joan Allan – Saothar: Fifty years of publishing on Labour History
Emmet O’Connor – Delivering a Usable Past: A 21st Century Agenda for the Society and Saothar
Articles
Caitriona Beaumont – Irish Housewives: everyday experiences, unpaid domestic work and intergenerational women’s activism, c. 1968-1975
Shay Cody – James Connolly and the British Army
Zoe Coleman – Factory City: Oral histories of Dublin’s rag trade
Margaret De Courcey – The POWU women telephonists’ fight for equal pay, 1975-79: an activist remembers
Des Derwin – Get back in your Ranks – twenty thunderous days in the saga of the Ranks Mill occupation, Dublin, February 1983
Francis Devine – Repaying the Historic Debt: Ireland and the British Miners’ Strike, 1984-1985
Kieran Devenish – Experiences of a lifetime: tales from Bray’s textile factory
Padraig Durnin – The Dunnes Stores Anti-Apartheid Strike
Lindsey Earner-Byrne – Gendering the Economy: experiencing the male breadwinner model in early twentieth-century Ireland
Orla Egan – Activists and Allies: Irish Trade Unions and the fight for LGBT rights
Sean Fenton – Social Agitation in 1960s Dublin: The Dublin Housing Action Committee
Deirdre Foley – Women and Girls in Jacob’s Biscuit Factory, c. 1911-1977
Brian Hanley – ‘The lack of any interest in the national question’? The Socialist Workers Movement and the early years of the Northern conflict
Roisin Higgins – ‘You didn’t see it, but you could hear the echoes and the sounds’: sensory perceptions of conflict in West Belfast
Carole Holohan – “'[W]e will bring you to a nicer place to work with more money”: a reflection on work in Irish institutions’
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