Organisation: National Union of Dock Labourers

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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    

Sat, 19 Dec, 2015

Industrial action on Cork’s docks helped Jim Larkin's Irish trade union movement

Emmet O’Connor looks at the early 20th Century industrial action on Leeside’s docks that helped reboot the Irish trade union movement under Big Jim Larkin

Tue, 15 Dec, 2015

Union crusader remember

Union leaders today laid a wreath at the Dublin graveside of union crusader Jim Larkin to mark the centenary of a famous Belfast strike that briefly straddled the sectarian divide.

Tue, 30 Jan, 2007

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