President Higgins keynote speaker at second 1912-1923 conference
Left to Right: Professor Ralph Darlington, Dr Michael Murphy, President of Ireland Michael D Higgins, Mrs Sabina Higgins, Professor Karen Hunt, and Mr Padraig Yeates.
The President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, was the keynote speaker at the second in the series of all-island 1912-1923 conferences organised by Universities Ireland in Dublin’s Liberty Hall on 15th June.
The conference was entitled ‘1912-1923: Reflecting on a decade of War and Revolution – The Cause of Labour’ and was attended by 150 people.
Among the other speakers and session chairs were
the General Secretary of the TUC, Frances O’Grady; Professor Ralph Darlington of the University of Salford;
Professor Karen Hunt of Keele University; the author of Lockout:Dublin 1913, Padraig Yeates;
the General Secretary of the ICTU, David Begg; and the general president of SIPTU, Jack O’Connor.
Podcasts from the conference:
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1913 – Did the wrong side win?
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The Dublin Lock-Out in Context
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Solidarity in the age of austerity
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The Dublin tenement as a window on the Dublin poor in 1913
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Helena Malony: a revolutionary life
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The many stories of Dora Montefiore and the Dublin Lockout
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Perceptions of the police during the decade of revolution
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Larkinism and the Lockout
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Belfast – Brave beginnings and a carnival of reaction
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Larkin and the Lockout
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William Martin Murphy and the Lockout
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, Head of Special Projects, National Archives of Ireland