Mar 15
On Thursday, 23rd January, An Post was due to release the first ever stamp to commemorate the Irish Citizen Army . However , this was immediately withdrawn as controversy arose over the identification of the central figure as Captain Jack White , which has been disputed by a number of historians . To date , …
Dec 04
1913 Lockout evictions in East Wall – commemoration videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKMs_7YPmyw On the 4th December 1913 over sixty workers and their families were evicted from Merchants Road during the great Lockout . In this centenary year their sacrifice has been commemorated by the community with the unveiling of a beautiful mural and plaque . On …
Nov 17
In June 1903 the DMP raided a house at 12 Upper Oriel Street. The object of their attention was the resident of the top floor flat, Daniel Courtney, who was running an illegal sheebeen from the premises. Courtney was a Casual Grain Labourer on the Docks and sought to extend his young families precarious …
Oct 07
________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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
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 …
