Munster's labour movement and the independence struggle: A regional exception?

Leading Irish labour historian Emmet O’Connor will deliver a keynote address on the labour movement in Munster during the war of independence at a major conference in UCC tomorrow. O’Connor asks why industrial unrest in Munster in this period was so militant, and how was it connected to the independence struggle.

ON 17 January 1890, bacon salters from Cork and Waterford assembled in the meeting rooms of the Limerick Porkbutchers’ Society to form the Amalgamated Society of Porkbutchers.