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The Irish Bulletin Newspaper (1919-1921)

November 7, 2014 · 0 comments

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By Ian Kenneally, Historian, Author and Broadcaster. He is currently a PhD student at the History Department, NUI Galway. The Irish Bulletin began publication on 11 November 1919 and ended publication in December 1921. During that period it was published as a daily newspaper. It was funded by Dáil Éireann; specifically the Department of Propaganda […]

Tagged as: Dail Eireann, Desmond Fitzgerald, Erskine Childers, Frank Gallagher, Ian Kenneally, IRA, Justin Furlong, Kathleen McKenna, National Library of Ireland, Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland, Robert Brennan, Shemus

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Labour World

August 2, 2013 · 3 comments

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Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian This is the fourth in a series of blogs connected to a joint project (Newspaper Descriptors Project) by the National Library of Ireland and the Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland (NPHFI). The project aims to provide short descriptors or pen notes for the newspaper titles listed […]

Tagged as: Carla King, Charles Stewart Parnell, Justin Furlong, Labour World, Michael Davitt, Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland, Newspapers, NPHFI, Parnell Split, The Democrat

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Sligo Dispute

March 8, 2013 · 4 comments

in Exhibitions,Guest Bloggers,Newspapers

We have a Dublin Lockout centenary exhibition coming up here at the National Library of Ireland this August, but many other protracted labour struggles took place in other parts of Ireland in 1913. In this blog post, author and historian Padraig Yeates looks at a dispute in Sligo between March and May of that year… […]

Tagged as: 1913, Alderman John Jinks, Boycott, City of Dublin Steamship Company, Connacht Manufacturing Company, Countess Markievicz, dockers, Dublin Lockout, Free labour, Garvey, Harper Campbell, Importers' Association, Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, ITGWU, J.A. Cooper, James Verdon, Jim Larkin, John Lynch, Liverpool, National Union of Sailors and Firemen, Newsome, NUSF, P.T. Daly, Padraig Yeates, Patrick Dunbar, Pollexfen, Seamen, Sir Josslyn Gore Booth, Sligo, Sligo Champion, Sligo Steam Navigation Company, Sligo Town Hall, SS Sligo, Stevedores, Strike, Strike Breakers, Strikers, Suttons, The Lockout, Thomas Flanagan, Trade Unions, Unions, Verdon

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