The Cause of Labour - Universities Ireland

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.

Date / Time	Event Details	Watch/Listen
15/06/2014 10.10am	Official Opening and introduction by Dr Michael Murphy, President, University College Cork and chair, Universities Ireland.
15/06/2014 10.25am	Keynote address: President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins: The Lockout of 1913 and the Response.
15/06/2014 11.35am	Mr Padraig Yeates: 1913 – Did the wrong side win?	View Details
15/06/2014 12.05am	Professor Ralph Darlington, Professor of Employment Relations, University of Salford: The Dublin Lock-Out in Context: International Labour Unrest and the Syndicalist Challenge	View Details
15/06/2014 2.00pm	Ms Frances O’Grady, General Secretary, Trades Union Congress: Solidarity in the age of austerity – lessons from 1913 in building unions for the 21st century.	View Details
15/06/2014 2.30pm	First Panel Session: Social conditions, gender and class. Dr Jacinta Prunty, NUI Maynooth: The Dublin tebement as a window on the situation of the Dublin poor in 1913.	View Details
15/06/2014 2.30pm	First Panel Session: Social conditions, gender and class. Dr Fearghal McGarry, Queen’s University Belfast: Helena Molony: a revolutionary life.	View Details
15/06/2014 2.30pm	First Panel Session: Social conditions, gender and class. Professor Karen Hunt, Keele University: The many stories of Dora Montefiore and the Dublin Lockout.	View Details
15/06/2014 2.30pm	First Panel Session: Social conditions, gender and class. Mr Paul Maher: Perceptions of the police during the decase of revolution.	View Details
15/06/2014 3.30pm	Second Panel Session: Birth of the Irish trade union movement Dr Emmet O’Connor, University of Ulster: Larkinism and the Lockout	View Details
15/06/2014 3.30pm	Second Panel Session: Birth of the Irish trade union movement Mr John Gray: Belfast – Brave beginnings and a carnival of reaction	View Details
15/06/2014 3.30pm	Second Panel Session: Birth of the Irish trade union movement Dr John Cunningham, NUI Galway: Larkin and the Lockout: western connections and perspectives	View Details
15/06/2014 3.30pm	Second Panel Session: Birth of the Irish trade union movement Dr Andy Bielenberg, University College Cork: William Martin Murphy and the Lockout	View Details
15/06/2014 4.30pm	Chair: Ms Catriona Crowe, Head of Special Projects, National Archives of Ireland Plenary discussion with afternoon speakers, followed by closing remarks from Professor Diarmaid Ferriter, University College Dublin.	View Details