The Cause of Labour: 1913 and Beyond

University College Cork, 1-2 March 2013

The Cause of Labour Conference Poster

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
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 University
9.25am	Scottish responses to the 1913 Lock-out and the 1916 Easter Rising Chloe Ross, Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen
9.50am	'The greatest campaign?' The British Labour party and ireland in 1921 Ben Bray, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University
10.15am	Coffee Break
10.40am	'Real Irish patriots would scorn the likes of you.' Larkin and irish-America Alan Noonan, School of History, University College Cork
11.05am	Irish American nationalists and the 1913 Dublin Lockout: the diasporic response David Brundage, University of California
11.30am	Break
	Session 2A: Labour annd Women Aras na Laoi G 18
11.40am	Revolutions in the everyday: Irish feminism and the reinvention of revolutionary socialism in Ireland, 1912-23 Liz Kyte, Women's Studies, University 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
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, University of Rennes 2
12.55pm	Lunch Break
	Section 3A: Labour and the regions Aras na Laoi G 18
2pm	Seeing Red: The provincial press reading of the 1913 strike and lockout Peter Hession, Peterhouse College, Cambridge University
2.25pm	Labour and Clonmel Sean O'Donnell, retired Deputy Principal, Rockwell College
2.50pm	The regional food committees John Borgonovo, School of History, University College Cork
	Section 3B: Labour and Dublin O'Rahilly Building G 38
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, University College Cork
3.15pm	Coffee Break
	Session 4A: The Lockout: before and after Aras na Laoi G 18
3.30pm	Labour before the Lockout: Larkinism and progressive trade unionism in ITUC Aidrian Grant, Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway
3.55pm	Prelude to 1913: the 1909 Cork lockout Luke Dineen, School of History, University 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
3.30pm	Labour and the 1918 conscription crisis Fiona Devoy-McAuliffe, School of History, University 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 University 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 University
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 University 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, University 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, University of Ulster
6pm	Closing Remarks Donal O Disceoil, School of History, University College Cork

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Contact Details

Conference organised by the School of History University College Cork, with assistance from the Research Fund, School of History, University 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, University College Cork.

Conference web site http://www.ucc.ie/en/history/labourconference.html

Organisers: Gabriel Doherty, Donal Ó Drisceoil, School of History, University College Cork.

The conference is dedicated to the memory of the prominent trade union activist and pioneer of labour history in Ireland, Donal Nevin.

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The Cause of Labour: 1913 and Beyond