President Higgins keynote speaker at second 1912-1923 conference

The President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, was the keynote speaker at the second in the series of all-island 1912-1923 conferences organised by Universities Ireland in Dublin’s Liberty Hall on 15th June.

The conference was entitled ‘1912-1923: Reflecting on a decade of War and Revolution – The Cause of Labour’ and was attended by 150 people.

Among the other speakers and session chairs were the General Secretary of the TUC, Frances O’Grady; Professor Ralph Darlington of the University of Salford; Professor Karen Hunt of Keele University; the author of Lockout:Dublin 1913, Padraig Yeates; the General Secretary of the ICTU, David Begg; and the general president of SIPTU, Jack O’Connor.

Podcasts from the conference:

• Mr Padraig Yeates: 1913 – Did the wrong side win?
• Professor Ralph Darlington: The Dublin Lock-Out in Context
• Ms Frances O’Grady: Solidarity in the age of austerity
• Dr Jacinta Prunty: The Dublin tenement as a window on the Dublin poor in 1913
• Dr Fearghal McGarry: Helena Malony: a revolutionary life
• Professor Karen Hunt: The many stories of Dora Montefiore and the Dublin Lockout
• Mr Paul Maher: Perceptions of the police during the decade of revolution
• Dr Emmet O’Connor: Larkinism and the Lockout
• Mr John Gray: Belfast – Brave beginnings and a carnival of reaction
• Dr John Cunningham: Larkin and the Lockout
• Dr Andy Bielenberg: William Martin Murphy and the Lockout
• Ms Catriona Crowe, Head of Special Projects, National Archives of Ireland