Century: 1913 Lockout

Saving kids, saving souls

A plan to relieve the pressure on locked-out families by caring for their children in England provoked the ire of the Catholic Church, writes Theresa Moriarty

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Wilful city of savage dreamers...

Locked Out seeks to recall in all its complexity the 1913 events that marked the coming of age in Dublin of the Irish labour movement

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West awakens to worker rights

Labour activity and strikes in Galway and Sligo proved that the movement was not solely a Dublin phenomenon, writes John Cunningham

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Battle engaged

Adrian Grant traces the events in Dublin from the opening blows in the summer of 1913 to Jim Larkin’s order to return to work in January 1914

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Barriers to worker unity

The 1907 strike in Belfast united Protestant and Catholic workers but by 1913 the sectarian divide was a barrier too strong to breach, writes Peter Collins

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