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Children featured prominently in one of the most controversial fracas of the 1913 Dublin Lockout . Tellingly the actual children’s interests were instrumental, not really a matter of concern for the grown-ups and their politicking. One hundred years later, has anything changed in the status of children in Ireland, asks Niall Crowley, commissioning editor of […]
Nineteen thirteen and the Dublin Lockout quickly evoke the names of James Larkin and William Martin Murphy. With a bit of probing James Connolly will be identified. However, the names of women involved in the Dublin Lockout are now being popularly recognised too. Does the Dublin Lockout hold a legacy for the women’s movement and […]