Peelers and Sheep

08/05/2023

This is not a history podcast - this is a rebel story, rebelling against accepted wisdoms and prevailing views, overturning what we thought we knew and creating new understandings, delving beneath the surface appearance of things.This is a podcast about peelers and sheep. Sheep representing agricult...

02/05/2023

The latest podcast for Laois Libraries looks at one of the Dáil Courts presided over by Kevin O'Sheil in 1920 - that's the Minister for Agriculture Art O'Connor talking about him below - a court that took place over a land dispute in western Laois in 1920 - explores the issues that came up in these disputes, how they dated back as far as the 1870s, how the Dáil Courts related to older forms of resolution, and how this institution as well as supplanting British authority led to a new relationship between republicans and southern Unionists, listen here - https://shows.acast.com/peelers-and-sheep/episodes/dail-courts-and-cattle-drives

29/04/2023

Labour & Women in Meath During The Revolutionary Decade

Meath Council of Trade Unions are hosting an excellent labour history seminar in the Dan Shaw Centre SIPTU in Navan on Saturday 6 March 2023. Martin Maguire, Tracey Holsgrove and Aidan Gilsenan are the speakers. Further details in the image below.
All welcome!

Decade of Centenaries - History Ireland SIPTU ICHLC - The Irish Centre for Histories of Labour and Class ICTU YOUTH COMMITTEE Meath Labour Jim Connell Society History Ireland Fórsa trade union Spirit of Mother Jones Festival Cork Women's History Association of Ireland (WHAI) Irish Women Workers Union

27/04/2023

27/04/2023

Further Content Added On 1922 Postal Strike

Further content has been added to the Society website on the 1922 Postal Strike. See https://www.irishlabourhistorysociety.com/news/further-digitised-content-published-on-ilhs-website/

The Society would like to acknowledge the support of CWU Ireland CWU Ireland Dublin City Library and Archive Digital Repository of Ireland and The Heritage Council for their role in making this content accessible to the wider public.

27/04/2023

18/04/2023

103 years ago 18th April 1920 there was a large 'Land for the People' rally on the borders of Carlow and Laois - this is the topic for my latest pod for Laois Libraries looking at the rally, its organiser Paudge Gaffney (Transport Union, Labour T.D. & Carlow Brigade I.R.A. Active Service Unit) and the wider context of April 1920 - the burning of the barracks, the Mountjoy Gaol hunger strike general strike and the butter and bacon embargo listen here - https://t.co/PdirWBq0aW

17/04/2023

Talk on 1923 Waterford Farm Labourers' Strike This Saturday

The Irish Labour History Society are holding an in-person talk on the 1923 Waterford Farm Labourers Strike in the Society premises in Beggars Bush, Dublin this Saturday 22 April at 12PM.
Society member Dr Pat McCarthy, author of Waterford : The Irish Revolution 1912-23 amongst other titles, will give an illustrated lecture titled "Use no half measures. Make an example of the place" - The National Army and the Waterford Farm Labourers dispute". All welcome! (The Society AGM is taking place in the afternoon for members of the Society).
SIPTU History Ireland Decade of Centenaries - History Ireland Military History Society of Ireland Four Courts Press

07/03/2023

Our latest local history talk takes place this evening 7th March at 7pm.
To register, please click on the link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-dublin-guard-in-the-civil-war-tickets-557738680407

"On the night of March 6th 1923 Captain Mick Dunne of the National Army’s Dublin Guard was killed along with several comrades in an I.R.A. booby-trap explosion in Kerry – an event which launched a series of retaliatory atrocities. This online event tells the story of Mick Dunne, who was of Laois-extraction, and the Dublin Guard – a unit of the National Army with a particularly bloody Civil War record comprised of some of the most militant I.R.A. ‘gunmen’ of the Tan War. A Zoom link will be emailed the afternoon before the talk to all who register for this event. The event is part of the Laois Libraries Decade of Centenaries programme for 2023.

John Dorney is an independent historian and chief editor and writer of the Irish Story website. He studied history and politics in University College Dublin and completed a Masters in Journalism and media studies at Griffith College Dublin. He has also written for many journals and media outlets including; History Ireland, The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Saothair the Labour History journal, The Revolution Papers, The Irish Independent, Sunday Independent and the Irish News. His works include Peace After the Final Battle; the Story of the Irish Revolution published by New Island Press in 2014 and The Irish Civil War in Dublin, the fight for the Irish capital 1922-1924 published in 2017 by Merrion Press".

07/03/2023

Join Terry Dunne (Laois Historian In Residence 2021-2022) in a journey into the hidden history of the Irish revolution as it happened in Laois. In this trai...

06/03/2023

27/02/2023

27/02/2023

‘Making Lace, Hats and China: Women in Past Galway Industries’, is the title of a free public event on International Women’s Day, 8th March, co-organised by the ICHLC and the Galway Council of Trade Unions. The venue is the Galway Mechanics Institute and the kick-off time is 8.15 pm,

There will be short presentations from three speakers. With a focus on Headford lace Norma Owens’s talk is entitled, ‘Reading between the threads: lace as a source for women’s labour history’. Mary Cunningham will talk about the hat factory in Bohermore, Les Modes Modernes, which operated between 1937 and 1972, while Yara Könst’s subject is Royal Tara China, which was produced in Mervue between 1953 and 2003. Yara and Norma are both postgraduate students of History at the University of Galway; Mary is an oral history researcher.

Interspersed with the talks, there will be appropriate musical contributions from members of the Galway Ukelele Group.

Our photograph (courtesy of Heather Gardiner) shows workers in the hat factory, c. 1940. Three of them have been identified. Miss Schwenk, supervisor (holding the glass), with Mai Lyons (right) and Ethel Murray (2nd from right), both of St Joseph's Terrace. The hat factory was established by Jewish refugees fleeing N**i persecution.

23/02/2023

Podcast: Land and revolution in Ireland, with Terry Dunne John_Dorney 23 February, 2023 Audio, Irish History, Podcasts, The Irish Civil War, The Irish War of Independence Potato digging in Galway early 1900s. (Courtesy of of National Archives site) Terry Dunne joins John Dorney to discuss agrarian a...