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CONTESTING HISTORY OPPOSING VOICES

CONTESTING HISTORY OPPOSING VOICES. 9: Nationalism and Socialism: The Lockout and the Rising. Nationalism and Socialism: The Lockout and the Rising. Socialism: Key People: James Larkin and James Connolly 1894: Irish Trade Union Congress established

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CONTESTING HISTORY OPPOSING VOICES

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  1. CONTESTINGHISTORYOPPOSINGVOICES 9: Nationalism and Socialism: The Lockout and the Rising

  2. Nationalism and Socialism: The Lockout and the Rising • Socialism: • Key People: James Larkin and James Connolly • 1894: Irish Trade Union Congress established • 1896:Connolly invited to Dublin to set up the Irish Socialist Republican Party – also set up and edited the Workers Republic • 1903: Connolly left Ireland for the USA • 1907: Larkin sent by James Sexton, the leader of the National Union of Dock Workers, to organise the Union in Belfast • 1907: May-Nov.: Dockers and Carters Strike as a result of the attempts by employers to lock out Union members • 1909: Larkin set up the Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITGWU) • 1910: Connolly returned to Dublin to run the Socialist Party of Ireland – also became the Belfast organiser of the ITGWU • 1912: Irish Labour Party established by Irish Trade Union Congress

  3. Nationalism and Socialism: The Lockout and the Rising • 1913: Aug.: William Martin Murphy and other employers tried to compel workers to leave the ITGWU on threat of dismissal • 1913: Aug.: ITGWU called out other workers • 1913: Sept.: 20,000 on strike or locked out – clashes with Metropolitan Police – Connolly and Larkin arrested for sedition • 1913: Nov.: Irish Citizen Army established to protect the workers • 1914: Jan.: most workers returned to work – unable to finance a long strike • 1914: Larkin left Ireland for the USA • 1914: Connolly took over as general secretary of the ITGWU – also as Commandant of the Citizen Army • Liberty Hall, ITGWU HQ, became the centre for the Irish Citizen Army, which had c. 350 members • 1916: Jan.: Connolly reached agreement with the Military Council of the IRB Supreme Council for a joint insurrection utilizing the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army

  4. Nationalism and Socialism: The Lockout and the Rising • 1914: Sept.: Irish Volunteers split • 1915: May: Foundation of the Military Council of the IRB • 1916: Jan.: Military Council agreed to a rising no later than Easter • 1916: 3 April: Plans were published for Irish Volunteer ‘manoeuvres’ on 23 April (Easter Sunday) • 1916: 20-1 April: The Aud was captured and scuttled with arms from Germany • 1916: 21 April: Roger Casement arrested on arrival from Germany • 1916: 22 April: Eoin MacNeill issued his countermanding order • 1916: 23 April: Military Council decided to go ahead with their plans • 1916: 24 April: The GPO and other Dublin buildings were occupied by the insurgents • 1916: 29 April: the unconditional surrender of the insurgents • 1916: 3-12 May: Leaders of the Rising were executed • 1916: 3 Aug.: Casement executed

  5. Nationalism and Socialism: The Lockout and the Rising • Further Reading: • Augusteijn, Joost (ed.), The Irish Revolution, 1913-23 (2002). • Caulfield, Max, The Easter Rebellion (1964). • Fitzpatrick, David, Politics and Irish life, 1913-1921 (1977). • Foy, Michael, & Barton, Brian, The Easter Rising (1999). • Townshend, Charles, Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion (2005).

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