All for one: legacy of mass protest is an inward culture of individualism

On this day, 100 years ago, 4,000 workers marched through Dublin, demanding recognition by employers for the ITGWU and the reinstatement of striking employees.

The 1913 lockout was visceral and left vulnerable people shattered. It inflicted horrible hardship on families who lived in the worst of slums.

Days later, the Archbishop of Dublin, William Walsh, condemned the plan to send the children of strikers to England for the duration. Children were taken through Dublin port to England nonetheless, but at the cost of stoking a sectarian onslaught on the strikers.