The document discusses the political and social movements in 20th century Ireland, focusing on the Irish Labour movement from 1889 to 1924. It covers the rise of new unionism, James Connolly and the Irish Socialist Republican Party, Jim Larkin and "Larkinism", the 1913 Lockout and Irish Citizen Army, syndicalism from 1917 to 1921, and the civil war and retreat of the labour movement from 1921 to 1924. Required and supplementary reading materials on these topics from several authors are also listed.