Workers, Politics and Labour Relations in Independent Ireland, 1922-46 Author : Gerard Hanley ISBN-13 : 978-1801510783 Publisher : Four Courts Press Guideline Price : €45Most conventional histories and perhaps even many trade unionists see the Dublin Lockout of 1913 as the high point of Irish labour history. The Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITGWU), almost crushed after the Lockout, had 120,000 members by 1920, half of them farm labourers. He asserts early on that “Labour must wait”, was an “apt representation of Sinn Féin’s attitudes to labour”. In fact, most postal workers had participated in the general strike of April 1920 demanding the release of jailed republicans; Walsh had been one of those prisoners. Hanley’s study is essential for anyone who wants to understand organised labour in the first decades of the new Irish State.

Source: Irish Independent February 29, 2024 06:12 UTC