Workers, Politics and Labour Relations in Independent Ireland, 1922–46: valuable and revealing
Understanding organised labour in the first decades of the new Irish State and its powerful establishment opponents
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Understanding organised labour in the first decades of the new Irish State and its powerful establishment opponents
Jimmy Somers, who has died aged 84, was a leading figure in the trade union movement and four-time Labour candidate for Dáil Éireann. Born in Cabra, north Dublin, on November 2, 1939, he was from a family of six boys and two girls. His father, Jimmy Sr, who worked for CIÉ, was a life-long labour activist whose values were shared from an early age by his son of the same name.
James Larkin, the Irish labor organizer, is perhaps most known for his involvement with the famous Dublin Lockout of 1913. But did you know that when Larkin was jailed in Sing Sing, New York in 1920, he was visited by none other than comedic genius Charlie Chaplin?
The Dublin Lockout, often recorded as the most severe labor dispute in Ireland’s history, happened on August 26, 1913.
On 27 June 1919, newspapers across the country ran stories detailing their regret at announcing the death of William Martin Murphy.