Person: Emmet O’Connor

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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

25 Irish saved fighting fascism

The leader of the Irish who fought against fascism in Spain sent 25 men home fearing more loss of life, records from Russia revealed.

Mon, 09 Feb, 2015

Bank employees in North on alert after bomb attacks by dissidents

BANK employees in Northern Ireland are being put on alert after several bomb attacks in recent months by dissident Irish nationalists.

Sat, 18 Jun, 2011

Historians call for release of colleague

WE, the undersigned, wish to register our protest at the imprisonment of our fellow Irish historian, Fintan Lane, and join in the call for his immediate release.

Wed, 17 Dec, 2003