Laois Libraries is set to present Revolutionary Workers, an online talk with Terry Dunne, Laois Historian-in-Residence, and Francis Devine, labour historian.
This is the second in a three-part series of talks on Revolutionary Laois organised by Laois Libraries as part of its Decade of Centenaries programme for 2022.
The talk takes place at 8pm on Thursday June 16 to coincide with the centenary of the first election in the Irish Free State.
In which William Davin, a Rathdowney man of the Railway Clerks’ Association, won 46.54% of the votes in the Laois-Offaly constituency.
Terry Dunne will talk on his chapter in ‘Bread not profits: provincial working-class politics during the Irish Revolution’, a new collection of essays on the labour movement in the revolutionary decade (1913-1923).
The chapter looks at the Portarlington Sawmills Lockout of 1918 and the Clonaslee Farm Strike of 1922.
Francis Devine, author of ‘Organising history: a centenary of SIPTU, 1909-2009’, and editor of ‘Bread not profits’, will discuss how the Laois experience fits into the national pattern.
Tickets are available, free of charge, on Eventbrite and on the Laois Local Studies website on www.laoislocalstudies.ie/history-talks-online-6/
