The Pearse Street Ambush, Dublin, March 14, 1921
An episode of the Irish War of Independence. Thirteen people die in Dublin. By John Dorney Dublin awoke on the morning to …
Book Review: Locked Out – A Century of Irish Working Class Life
Editor: David Convery Publisher: Irish Academic Press, 2013. Price: €24.95 or less from the publisher Reviewer: John Dorney There was a time when …
Frank Moss – A Forgotten Labour Leader of 1913
Christopher Lee on Frank Moss, the leader of the Swords strikers in the Lockout of 1913. See also Christopher’s articles on the …
Today in Irish History – August 31, 1913 – Labour’s Bloody Sunday
The first ‘Bloody Sunday’ in twentieth century Ireland, during the Lockout of 1913. By John Dorney See also Remembering the Lockout. It …
Remembering the Lockout
Remembering the Dublin Lockout, one hundred years on. By John Dorney The Lockout of 1913, the great strike that brought Dublin …
Making Sense of the Irish Civil War – A Conversation with Gavin Foster
Professor Gavin Foster of the Department of Canadian Irish studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec in conversation with John Dorney about the Irish …
“The principal rallying-ground for the Larkinites” – The Swords Riot of 1913
Christopher Lee, author of a previous article on Finglas in the Lockout, looks at the great strike of 1913 in the County …