Wednesday 22nd April, Irish History Month seminar, hosted by London Metropolitan University, Irish Studies and Working Lives: The Workers Before During and after the 1916 Rising. See details at: http://met.ac/jstxq
Speakers are Marian Larragy & Geoff Bell
Marian Larragy of LIFN, will talk Irish Women Workers, including Rosie Hackett
For anyone who would like to follow up on the period, this is a short list of
Sources
Women of the Irish Revolution, Liz Gillis Mercier Press, 2014
A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913–23, Diarmaid Ferriter
Renegades – Irish Republican Women 1900-1922 (Mercier Press 2010)
Unlikely Rebels: The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish Freedom, Anne Clare (Mercier Press, 2011)
Dissidents – Irish Republican Women 1923-1941 (Mercier Press, 2012)
‘Unmanageable Revolutionaries’ – Women and Irish Nationalism, Margaret Ward, Pluto Press, 1983
Online info and images
‘100 Years of Women’s Struggle’ Research by: Theresa Moriarty. Published March 2008 by: SIPTU’s Equality Unit
The Countess Markievicz Memorial Lecture 2006, Kieran Mulvey, Chief Executive, Labour Relations Commission
What’s The Racket about Rosie Hackett – Campaign meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBObXK9ztRA
http://womenworkersunion.ie/?page_id=263
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/siptu/f5_history.html
http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/James_Connolly
General background on the Lockout:
Irish Radio Podcasts on Dublin Lockout http://www.rte.ie/radio1/lockout/
https://spiritof1913.wordpress.com
http://comeheretome.com/2011/03/08/delia-larkin-and-the-jacobs-strike-committee/
Housing condition Dublin 1900: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/exhibition/dublin/poverty_health.html
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/exhibition/dublin/commerce/E_WomensWorkers_KE204.html
london irish feminist network 