The North West Labour HIstory Society are holding a history lecture on the Irish and trade unionism on Sunday 18th April 2010, 2pm at the Working Class Movement Library, 51 Crescent Salford M5 4WX. [url]http://www.wcml.org.uk[/url]
There will be two speakers: Sonja Tiernan and Francis Devine
Sonja Tiernan will speak about Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926). Born in Sligo into the Anglo-Irish gentry, Eva came to Manchester in 1896 to help organise working women into trade unions. In 1904 she and other women established the Manchester and Salford Women's Trades and Labour Council. She also campaigned for the vote for working women. Eva was a poet and playwright, part of the Irish literary renaissance.
Sonja teaches at Trinity College, Dublin. She is an Executive Committee Member of the Women's History Association of Ireland ansd on the Editorial Board of the Irish Journal of Feminist Studies. Associate member of the Irish Historical Society. Her study of Eva Gore-Booth will published by Manchester University Press in 2010.
Francis Devine from the Irish Labour History Society will give a talk on Larkin's Unions: a centenary of the Irish Transport & General Workers Union' and Workers' Union of Ireland and its North West Connections. He will recount the remarkable story of Jim Larkin, the legendary I rish labour organiser who led the 1913 Dublin Lockout, a titanic clash between capital and labour.
Francis Devine is the author of Organising History: a Centenary of SIPTU, 1909 - 2009 (Gill & Macmillan, 2009). He was the editor of Saothar, the Journal of the Irish Labour History Society for many years and is currently working on a history of the Communications Workers' Union.
Admission is free; there will be a collection after the meeting.
More information from Michael Herbert of the North West Labour History Society, email: [mailto]mossley@phonecoop.coop[/mailto]