The definitive biography of Big Jim Larkin

Jack O’Connor welcomes the definitive biography of Big Jim Larkin, the trade union leader who transformed the Irish labour movement but who, paradoxically, was at least partly responsible for splitting it apart for decades    

JIM LARKIN’s legacy to the Irish trade union movement is immeasurable. He transformed it from a select lobby of craft unions and staff associations, narrowly focused on improving pay and conditions for members, into one that embraced the great mass of workers.

He also gave it a new agenda aimed at transforming Ireland into a socialist commonwealth.