Baton charge relives Lockout clashes

The re-enactment of the violent clashes during the Dublin Lockout was the centrepiece of the State commemoration to mark its 100th anniversary over the weekend.

President Michael D Higgins joined other dignitaries and hundreds of onlookers and tourists in O’Connell St, known as Sackville St in 1913, to witness a recreation of a police baton charge on the workers’ rally in the early days of the lockout.

During the dispute, strikers were locked out of their factories, with many families forced to the brink of starvation during the six month-plus stand-off.