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Sligo - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 Public Meeting on Deported Leitrim Socialist Jim Gralton
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Thursday January 13, 2005 02:06 by D. Hevers - Connolly Forum S.U.T.C. Castle Street, Sligo.
The writer and former RTE radio presenter Mr Pat Feeley, will speak at a Connolly Forum public meeting on ‘Jim Gralton – the Leitrim Socialist’, which will be held in the Trades Club, Castle Street, Sligo, on Wednesday the 19th of January at 8.30.p.m. Jim Gralton, a native of Effernagh, Co. Leitrim, emigrated to America as a young man. It was in the U.S.A. that he became involved in the labour struggles of the time. Never breaking his links with Ireland he was active in the Connolly Club in New York, which also counted among its members Jim Larkin, Nora Connolly and Liam Mellows. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5Please ask the person giving the talk to consider publishing a version here to remedy this.
Well not exactly nothing but next to nothing .....however even poor old much maligned RTE has this little snippet:
http://www.rte.ie/culture/millennia/people/graltonjim.html
A bit more would indeed be welcome ....
http://www.gov.ie/debates-02/18Dec/Sect1.htm
Ms Burton: I wish to take the opportunity of this question to request the Taoiseach to ask his officials and those in the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform if it is possible to release the files on the late Jim Gralton. A number of attempts have been made over the years to have the official papers on the late Jim Gralton, a labour activist from County Leitrim, released but that has not happened. I am not sure if the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform has even been able to find files. Would it be possible to find them because his relatives and other people are interested?
An Ceann Comhairle: Deputy, you are well outside the scope of this question.
The Taoiseach: I will pass on the Deputy's request. I am not familiar with the detail.
Gralton was a key figure in conveying the industrial unionism ideas of James Connolly to Mike Quill, founder of New York City's Transport Workers Union. Today NYC's TWU is a vibrant workers organization, a living embodiment of the ideas of James Connolly. The murder of Connolly by British imperialism is commemmorated every year by the TWU.
I am doing a research paper on the role of the Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise in having James Gralton deported from Ireland.
If you have any information, please advise.
Many thanks.
P. O'Hay PhD.
University of Toronto, Canada
polohay@yahoo.com