The Cause of Labour

Official Opening and introduction by Dr Michael Murphy, President, University College Cork and chair, Universities Ireland.

Keynote address: President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins: The Lockout of 1913 and the Response.

Mr Padraig Yeates: 1913 – Did the wrong side win?

Professor Ralph Darlington, Professor of Employment Relations, University of Salford: The Dublin Lock-Out in Context: International Labour Unrest and the Syndicalist Challenge

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.

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.

First Panel Session: Social conditions, gender and class.

Dr Fearghal McGarry, Queen’s University Belfast: Helena Molony: a revolutionary life.

First Panel Session: Social conditions, gender and class.

Professor Karen Hunt, Keele University: The many stories of Dora Montefiore and the Dublin Lockout.

First Panel Session: Social conditions, gender and class.

Mr Paul Maher: Perceptions of the police during the decase of revolution.

Second Panel Session: Birth of the Irish trade union movement

Dr Emmet O’Connor, University of Ulster: Larkinism and the Lockout

Second Panel Session: Birth of the Irish trade union movement

Mr John Gray: Belfast – Brave beginnings and a carnival of reaction

Second Panel Session: Birth of the Irish trade union movement

Dr John Cunningham, NUI Galway: Larkin and the Lockout: western connections and perspectives

Second Panel Session: Birth of the Irish trade union movement

Dr Andy Bielenberg, University College Cork: William Martin Murphy and the Lockout

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.