The University of Salford, Manchester, and the Working class Movement Library are hosting “Struggle, Solidarity, and Defeat: 1913 Dublin Lockout Centenary Conference” on Saturday, October 19th, 2013.
Organized by the University of Salford and Salford Working Class Movement Library and sponsored by the Society for the Study of Labor History, North West Labor History Society, and journal of Historical Studies in Industrial Relations.
The program is already finalized.
9.45am -10.30am: Registration and Coffee
10.30am- 10.45am: Welcome and Introduction
10.45am-12.00 midday: The Dublin Lockout: Speaker: Padraig Yeates, Irish Times industry and employment correspondent; author of Lockout: Dublin 1913; project manager of the Irish 1913 Committee
12.00 midday-1.15pm: The Irish Transport and General Workers Union: Speaker: Francy Devine, author of
Organising History: A Centenary of SIPTU; 1909-2009, former President of Irish Labour History Society and editor of journal Saothar; ex-tutor in the SIPTU Education and Training Department
1.15pm-2.00pm
2.00pm-3.15pm: Jim Larkin: Speaker: Emmet O’Connor, senior lecturer in History, Magee College, University of Ulster; author of James Larkin and Syndicalism in Ireland
3.15pm-4.30pm: Solidarity and Defeat: Speaker: Ralph Darlington, Professor of Employment Relations, University of Salford; author of The Political Trajectory of J.T. Murphy and Syndicalism and the Transition to Communism
