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Helping took many forms, including the fight for workers' rights. Born in Liverpool to Irish parents, James Larkin took the resilience of the docks and the navvies and forged it into a global labor movement. James Larkin represents the shift from the Irish being a community that needed help, to a community that led the charge for justice and equality for all workers.
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The Belfast lockout took place in Belfast from 26 April to 28 August 1907. The strike was called by Liverpool-born trade union leader James Larkin who had successfully organised the dock workers to join the National Union of Dock Labourers. The dockers, both Protestant and Catholic, had gone on strike after their demand for union recognition was refused.
#History #IrishHistory #Beflast #NorthernIreland #BelfastLockout #JamesLarkin #OnThisDay
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O’Casey also said Larkin ‘had the eloquence of an Elizabethan, fascinating to all who heard him, and irresistible to the workers. He was familiar with the poetry of Shakespeare, Whitman, Shelley and Omar Khayyam, and often quoted them in his speeches.’ 3/3
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Larkin was probably the most effective labour leaders in Irish history leading major strikes of 1907 (Belfast and Dublin), 1911, and the 1913 Dublin Lockout, a six-month ultimately failed standoff between Dublin workers and employers. In 1908, he founded the Irish Transport and General Workers Union. 2/3
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Union Leader, James Larkin died on 30 January 1947 in Dublin. Sean O’Casey said of Larkin ‘He fought for the loaf of bread as no man before him had ever fought; but with the loaf of bread, he also brought the flask of wine and the book of verse.’ 1/3
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The Dublin Lockout began on 26 August 1913 as Dublin workers began to leave work in response to a call for a general strike from James Larkin. A Dublin businessman, William Martin Murphy, fired forty workers he suspects belong to the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU). A resulting strike and related civil unrest, the Dublin Lockout, lasted until January 1914.
#Ireland #IrishHistory #Dublin #JamesLarkin #DublinLockout #TradeUnions
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The Belfast lockout took place in Belfast from 26 April to 28 August 1907. The strike was called by Liverpool-born trade union leader James Larkin who had successfully organised the dock workers to join the National Union of Dock Labourers. The dockers, both Protestant and Catholic, had gone on strike after their demand for union recognition was refused.
#History #IrishHistory #Beflast #NorthernIreland #BelfastLockout #JamesLarkin #OnThisDay
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The Dublin Lockout began on 26 August 1913 as Dublin workers began to leave work in response to a call for a general strike from James Larkin. A Dublin businessman, William Martin Murphy, fired forty workers he suspects belong to the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU). A resulting strike and related civil unrest, the Dublin Lockout, lasted until January 1914.
#Ireland #IrishHistory #Dublin #JamesLarkin #DublinLockout #TradeUnions
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@Radical_EgoCom You might like this ditty my uncle wrote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHQ-vxI8QJg
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The Belfast lockout took place in Belfast from 26 April to 28 August 1907. The strike was called by Liverpool-born trade union leader James Larkin who had successfully organised the dock workers to join the National Union of Dock Labourers. The dockers, both Protestant and Catholic, had gone on strike after their demand for union recognition was refused.
#History #IrishHistory #Beflast #NorthernIreland #BelfastLockout #JamesLarkin #OnThisDay