Category Archive: 1913 Lockout
Sep 15
1913 Merchants Road Evictions commemorated
A wonderful commemoration event to mark the Merchants Road evictions took place this past weekend. In 1913 over sixty workers and their family members were evicted by their employer, the Merchants Warehousing Company during the Lockout. In this centenary year we remember them, and have commemorated these people and their sacrifice and courage. Here are …
Sep 12
1913 Lockout – Merchants Road evictions The Dunne and Coombes family stories recalled
Waiting for the Bailiffs This coming weekend, on Sunday 15th September, a major commemoration of East Walls Lockout evictions is taking place. Sixty two workers and their families were evicted from company owned houses on Merchants Road, in what we believe to be the single largest eviction in the history of Dublin City. An examination …
Jun 21
Comic book creators visit St. Josephs Co-Ed
Comic book creators visit St. Josephs Co-Ed Comic book creators Rory McConville (writer) and Paddy Lynch (Artist) made a very special visit to our school this week. Rory and Paddy are the talents behind the graphic novel “Big Jim- Jim Larkin and the 1913 Lockout”, the latest in a series of historical graphic …
Jan 14
“THE MAN WHO EXPOSED THE SLUM OWNERS”Municipal elections – January 15th 1914
“THE MAN WHO EXPOSED THE SLUM OWNERS” Municipal elections – January 15th 1914 On this date in 1914 Municipal elections took place in Dublin. Amongst the candidates was Walter Carpenter, a trade unionist and socialist who lived for some time on Caledon Road, East Wall. Despite living in the North Docks Ward, Walter stood as …
Oct 07
October 1915 – The revolutionary dockers in Dublin
________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Remembering 1913 PLEASE NOTE: Next year marks the centenary of the 1913 Lockout. Workers from the Dock-side communities, North and South of the river, were very much to the forefront of the trade union militancy of the time. Members of the East Wall History Group are amongst those that are working together to ensure …
Aug 27
Eastwaller arrested for insulting a British Royal – Walter Carpenter (1911)
On this date, 27th August, over one hundred years ago an East Wall resident had just been released from a month long sentence in Mountjoy Jail. Walter Carpenter, with an address at 8 Caledon Road, had been convicted of “using language calculated to lead to a breach of the peace and with having endeavoured to …
Jun 25
East Wall celebrates its history in Paradise
Paradise Alley by John D Sheridan was first published by Talbot Press, Dublin in 1945. This new edition, published by Seven Towers, includes an introduction by Sarah Lundberg and Joe Mooney with details from the real school records and memories of the pupils who were there – Tommy Devlin, Larry Kane, Maisie Lynch, Teresa Mason, …