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National - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 New Labour History book to be launched tonight
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Wednesday May 21, 2008 11:24 by labour history buff
A new collection of essays on Irish labour history - edited by Francis Devine, Fintan Lane and Niamh Puirseil - will be launched Liberty Hall, Dublin, tonight. The event, which will be addressed by Des Geraghy, is open to all with an interest in labour history. Essays in Irish Labour History is a tribute to the late Professor John W Boyle, University of Guelph, Canada and a leading practitioner of Irish labour history, and his late wife Elizabeth. |
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Jump To Comment: 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1There were a few former stickies there, but so? As the comment above says, it would be weird if there wasn't! One of the editors is a member of the Labour Party and another is a member of the Irish Socialist Network.
Anyway, it was a very good night and all sorts attended. Plenty of wine and no shortage of song afterwards when the music kicked off.
And the book is half-bad either :)
I didn't notice too many ex-Sticks and the ones that were there are not members of the Labour Party. A launch of a book on Irish labour history would be a strange place if there were not any Sticks present since they were a big part of the labour movement in the 1970s and 80s. There were also members of the CP, Sinn Fein and the SWP present as well as a lot of people who are not members of anything. There was also free wine which attracts many, including possibly 'ME' and his sour puss.
Good launch in Liberty Hall, though the place was coming down with ex-sticks now Labour Party as if they were never in anything else. A good night for the family of John W. Boyle I think.
Obviously the Labour Party policy of abolishing university fees failed to have much of an impact on Updater's ed-u-ma-cation.
Good book, look forward to reading it.
I wonder if the previous poster is having trouble distinguishing between a 'History of the Labour Party' and 'A Labour History'.
1. Tax Amnesties and how we rewarded our friends in big business. Dick Spring reflects from the Golf Course.
2. The 1980's- a period of Labour cutbacks in the Health Service. Justin Keating.
3. Censorship and Sacking- how Labour looked after freedom of speech and put the fear of god into RTE- Conor Cruise O'Brien.
4. A quick guide to selling out- The Labour Party's history of propping up right-wing governments in Ireland- John Bruton, with help from Albert Reynolds.
4. Keeping a pet socialist- a lighthearted look at tokenism by Michael D Higgins
(that's enogh satire- indymedia editor)
Here's a full list of contents. It's in bookshops already btw.
1. A gentle flowering: Elizabeth and John W. Boyle, historians and labour activists
Francis Devine
2. Envisaging labour history: some reflections on Irish historiography and the working class
Fintan Lane
3. Popular protest and a 'moral economy' in provincial Ireland in the early nineteenth century
John Cunningham
4. ‘Remembering who we are’: identity and class in Protestant Dublin and Belfast, 1870–1970
Martin Maguire
5. The Dublin building trades lockout of 1896
Charles Callan
6. Outwork, truck and the lady inspector: Lucy Deane in Londonderry and Donegal, 1897
K.J. James
7. Striking for the right to be late at work: workers’ resistance to employers’ time-discipline in Lurgan power-loom factories, 1899–1914
Mats Greiff
8. The Belfast shipyards and the industrial working class
John Lynch
9. Sheep in wolves’ clothing: Labour and politics in Belfast, 1881–1914
Emmet O’Connor
10. The IRA and trade unionism, 1922–70
Brian Hanley
11. Catholic Stakhanovites? Religion and the Irish Labour Party, 1922–73
Niamh Puirséil
12. Writers of the Left: politics and culture in Ireland during the 1930s
Paul O’Brien
13. Money matters and working women in Ireland of the 1940s and 1950s
Elizabeth Kiely and Maire Leane
14. The decline of the collaborators: the Ulster Unionist Labour Association and post-war unionist politics
Henry Patterson
I've been searching for a while for the contents of this book. Does anyone know the list of essays that it will encompass?