The Cause of Labour: 1913 and Beyond
ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã College Cork, 1-2 March 2013

| Friday, 1 March | |
| 8.50am | Opening Remarks Gabriel Doherty, School of History, UCC |
| Session 1: Irish Labour: The External Response Aras na Laoi G 18 |
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| 9am | From shamrock to pit prop: industrial unrest, independence and the Irish embrace of the labour movement in South Wales, 1913-1922 Daryl Leeworthy, Oriel College, Oxford ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã |
| 9.25am | Scottish responses to the 1913 Lock-out and the 1916 Easter Rising Chloe Ross, Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã of Aberdeen |
| 9.50am | 'The greatest campaign?' The British Labour party and ireland in 1921 Ben Bray, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã |
| 10.15am | Coffee Break |
| 10.40am | 'Real Irish patriots would scorn the likes of you.' Larkin and irish-America Alan Noonan, School of History, ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã College Cork |
| 11.05am | Irish American nationalists and the 1913 Dublin Lockout: the diasporic response David Brundage, ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã of California |
| 11.30am | Break |
| Session 2A: Labour annd Women Aras na Laoi G 18 |
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| 11.40am | Revolutions in the everyday: Irish feminism and the reinvention of revolutionary socialism in Ireland, 1912-23 Liz Kyte, Women's Studies, ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã College Cork |
| 12.05pm | Women workers: from Lockout to Civil War Teresa Moriarty, irish Labour History Society |
| 12.30am | 'Growing up poor': Working-class women and family life during the revolution, 1912-23 |
| Session 2B: Labour and the land O'Rahilly Building G 38 |
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| 11.40am | Fighting over the Kingdom's sod: the persistence of land agitation in Kerry Richard McElligott, School of History and Archives, Universiy College Dublin |
| 12.05 | Practical socialism implemeted by non-Socialists? Soviets and land seizures in revolutionary Ireland, 1918-23 Oliver Coquelin, Centre for Breton and Celtic Studies, ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã of Rennes 2 |
| 12.55pm | Lunch Break |
| Section 3A: Labour and the regions Aras na Laoi G 18 |
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| 2pm | Seeing Red: The provincial press reading of the 1913 strike and lockout Peter Hession, Peterhouse College, Cambridge ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã |
| 2.25pm | Labour and Clonmel Sean O'Donnell, retired Deputy Principal, Rockwell College |
| 2.50pm | The regional food committees John Borgonovo, School of History, ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã College Cork |
| Section 3B: Labour and Dublin O'Rahilly Building G 38 |
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| 2pm | Socialism from God, in Ireland, and for the Irish: the 'Irish Worker' and Dublin working class culture Leah Hunnewell, School of History, Trinity College Dublin |
| 2.25pm | The legacy of the Lockout: lessons from oral history Mary Muldowney and Ida Milne, Directors of the Oral History Network of Ireland |
| 2.50pm | The 'Irish Worker' and sport in Dublin David Toms, School of History, ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã College Cork |
| 3.15pm | Coffee Break |
| Session 4A: The Lockout: before and after Aras na Laoi G 18 |
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| 3.30pm | Labour before the Lockout: Larkinism and progressive trade unionism in ITUC Aidrian Grant, Moore Institute, National ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã of Ireland, Galway |
| 3.55pm | Prelude to 1913: the 1909 Cork lockout Luke Dineen, School of History, ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã College Cork |
| 4.20pm | Irish railwaymen in peace and war - the changing face of railway industrial relations 1911-1916 Peter Rigney, Industrial Officer, ICTU |
| 4.45pm | From the Lock-out ot World War Two: British socialists and communistts facing the revolutionary decade Adria Llacuna, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona |
| Session 4B: Must Labour wait? O'Rahilly Building G 38 |
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| 3.30pm | Labour and the 1918 conscription crisis Fiona Devoy-McAuliffe, School of History, ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã College Cork |
| 3.55pm | The Labour Party in the Irish Civil War Georgine Althouse, School of History, Trinity College Dublin |
| 4.20pm | How the Dublin Lockout helped teach Irish labour to wait D.R. O'Connor-Lysaght, Irish Labour History Society |
| 5.15pm | Dinner |
| 7.15pm | Official Conference Opening and Launch of ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã College Cork Multitext Project on the Lockout Boole IV Lecture Theatre |
| 7.15pm | The cause of Labour: 1913 and beyond Padraig Yeates, 1913 Committee |
Conference Schedule Saturday
| Saturday, 2 March | |
| 9.15am | The Lord and Labour: clerical responses to the workers question Paul Maguire, School of Hisotry, Dublin City ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã |
| 9.40am | Archbishop Walsh, the Dublin diocese and the 1913 Lockout Fr Thomas J. Morrissey, SJ |
| 10.30am | Coffee Break |
| 10.45am | The labour plays of Andrew Patrick Wilson, 1912-14 |
| 11.10am | Labour in Irish literature Michael Pierse, Reasearh Fellow, Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities, Queen's ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã Belfast |
| 12pm | Break |
| 12.05pm | The 'Decade of Centenaries' - a a catastrophe for northern labour John Gray, Independent social historian |
| 1pm | Lunch |
| 2.10pm | James Connolly and the cause of labour Kieran Allen, School of Sociology, ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã College Dublin |
| 3pm | Labour in irish history: James Connolly and Irish historiography Fintan Lane, Independant scholar |
| 3.50pm | Coffee Break |
| 4.05pm | The Soviets in Ireland Conor Kostick, School of Hisotry and Humaninities, Trinity College Dubin |
| 4.55pm | Break |
| 5pm | Larkin and Larkinism Emmet O'Connor, School of English and History, ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã of Ulster |
| 6pm | Closing Remarks Donal O Disceoil, School of History, ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã College Cork |
Please click here to download a PDF version of the Conference Programme (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader XI or equivalent) The Cause of Labour Conference Programme
Contact Details
Conference organised by the School of History ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã College Cork, with assistance from the Research Fund, School of History, ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã College Cork.
For further information please telephone 021-4902783, email g.doherty@ucc.ie, or 021 4903048, D.ODriscoll@ucc.ie.
Please address any correspondence to: ‘1913/Labour conference’, School of History, ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã College Cork.
Conference web site http://www.ucc.ie/en/history/labourconference.html
Organisers: Gabriel Doherty, Donal Ó Drisceoil, School of History, ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã College Cork.
The conference is dedicated to the memory of the prominent trade union activist and pioneer of labour history in Ireland, Donal Nevin.