Nineteen-thirteen was the year of the Dublin lockout and the courageous if unsuccessful struggle of Jim Larkin and the ITGWU against William Martin Murphy and the Dublin Chamber of Commerce. In this centenary year we are confronted with a different form of national lockout through high levels of unemployment, emigration and poverty. Niall Crowley examines if 1913 has anything to say to our current predicament.
Loyalists, who have gained little from the peace process, need to relate more through respect, dialogue and culture – Patricia McCarthy and Mick Rafferty