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Irish Labour Movement 1880-1924: Lecture One - Introduction
This document provides an overview of the course HHIS403 - Political & Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Ireland which focuses on the Irish Labour movement from 1889-1924. The course will cover topics such as the rise of new unionism, James Connolly and the Irish Socialist Republican Party, Jim Larkin and 'Larkinism', the 1913 Lockout and Irish Citizen Army, and syndicalism. Required and supplementary reading materials on these topics are also listed.
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- 1. HHIS403 - Political& Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Ireland The Irish Labour Movement, 1889 – 1924 Friday @ 10am Introduction: Irish Labour movement, 1889-1924 The Rise of New Unionism, 1889-1906 James Connolly and the Irish Socialist Republican Party, 1896-1904 Jim Larkin and ‘Larkinism’, 1907-1914 The 1913 Lockout and the Irish Citizen Army Syndicalism, 1917-1921 Civil War and Retreat, 1921-1924 Required Reading: Emmet O’Connor, A Labour History of Ireland 1824-2000 (Dublin: UCD Press, 2011): 51-127. Supplementary Reading: Conor McCabe, ‘Your only God is profit’: Irish class relations and the 1913 Lockout ’ in David Convery (ed) Locked Out: A Century of Irish Working-Class Life (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2013) Lorcan Collins, James Connolly: 16 Lives (Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2012) Fintan Lane, The Origins of Modern Irish Socialism, 1881-1896 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1997) David Lynch, Radical Politics in Modern Ireland: The Irish Socialist Republican Party, 1896-1904 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2005) Emmet O’Connor, Syndicalism in Ireland, 1917-1923 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1988) Emmet O’Connor, James Larkin (Cork: Cork University Press, 2002)
- 6. The New Departure A compact made between Parnell, Davitt, and the Fenian leader John Devoy in June 1879 Fenians, parliamentarians and ‘advanced’ nationalists agreed to work together The New Departure provided the basis for the effective prosecution of the Land War
- 24. Thirty ‘new’ unionsformed in Ireland between 1885 and 1891 Notable developments: NUDL - National Union of Dock Labourers (liverpool) ASRS – Amalgamated Society Railway Servants (London) NAUL – National Amalgamated Union of Labour (Tyneside)
- 25. ‘New’ Politics April1894 – Irish Trade Union Congress convened in Dublin
- 26. ‘New’ Politics April1894 – Irish Trade Union Congress convened in Dublin “Oblivious to the contrasts in employment structure, trade unionism and politics between Ireland and Britain, the ITUC was a miniature version of the BTUC. Herein lay a damnable design fault. The BTUC’s political influence rested on its industrial power.
- 27. ‘New’ Politics April1894 – Irish Trade Union Congress convened in Dublin “Oblivious to the contrasts in employment structure, trade unionism and politics between Ireland and Britain, the ITUC was a miniature version of the BTUC. Herein lay a damnable design fault. The BTUC’s political influence rested on its industrial power. Trying to copy the British model meant that the ITUC would be primarily an industrial rather than a political body, pursuing its objectives on the basis of union organisation, where it was weak, rather than through the national movement, where it would have some leverage.
- 28. ‘New’ Politics April1894 – Irish Trade Union Congress convened in Dublin Congress rejected reality by abjuring the nationalism which most workers believed in for a strictly Labour politics which most of them did not. The result was not a seedling socialism, but depoliticisation.” (O’Connor, p.63)
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- 30. 1868 – Born,Cowgate, Edinburgh 1882 – joins British army. 1889 – deserts and returns to Edinburgh, active in socialist politics 1892 – Secretary of the Scottish Socialist Federation 1896 – arrives in Dublin, helps form Irish Socialist Republican Party (ISRP) 1898 – Workers’ Republic – serializes Labour in Irish History 1903 – emigrates to the US 1911 – returns to Ireland 1913 – co-founder (with Jack White), Irish Citizen Army 1916 – Easter Rising and execution
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- 36. 1876 – Born,Liverpool 1903 – Dock foreman, Liverpool 1905 – Full-time trade union official 1907 – moves to Belfast – 1908 – forms ITGWU 1913 – Lockout 1914 – moves to U.S.A. 1919 – founding member, American Communist Party 1920 – jailed for ‘criminal anarchy’ 1923 – pardoned and returns to Ireland, forms Irish Workers’ League 1924 – forms Workers’ Union of Ireland 1947 – dies. Buried in Glasnevin cemetary
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- 49. Bruree Workers SovietMills, April 1919