This year marks the centenary of the Dublin Lockout, one of the greatest labor disputes in Irish history. For several months, thousands of workers across Dublin went on strike for better employment ...

The basic cause of the dispute was the refusal of a consortium of Dublin businessmen, led by William Martin Murphy, to recognize the right of workers to join the Irish Transport and General Workers’ ...

The O’Brien Press are celebrating it’s latest publication “Big Jim: Jim Larkin and the 1913 Lockout”, a book launch in graphic form, which retells the tale of the union leader’s role in the Dublin ...

Over the past few months, a series of official events in Dublin and across Ireland have marked 100 years since the great lockout of 1913-1914. The lockout saw 20,000 workers, led by transport workers ...

A short history of Ireland’s most significant industrial dispute: the mass lockout of 20,000 workers by 400 employers in Dublin from August 1913… ...