LARKIN HEDGE SCHOOL SEPTEMBER 1913 SOLIDARITY GATHERING
Larkin Hedge School
LARKIN HEDGE SCHOOL SEPTEMBER 1913 SOLIDARITY GATHERING
All welcome to the Larkin Hedge School Solidarity Gathering in Liberty Hall on September 22nd. Join us for an evening of song, music and poetry to mark the centenary of the month of historic confrontation between the employers and the poor of Dublin, immortalised in the famous Yeats poem.
The Larkin Hedge School was founded in 2009 to commemorate the centenary of the founding of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union by Jim Larkin. Just five years later, by the end of September 1913, 404 employers led by William Martin Murphy had locked out 20,000 workers for their failure to sign the infamous pledge to “immediately resign my membership of the ITGWU...”, leaving some 90,000 of the poorest citizens of Dublin destitute and starving.
A visual exhibition will set the scene for a reception at 7 p.m., and among the singers and musicians participating are Peter Browne, Steve Cooney, Noel O’Grady, Len Graham, Mary McPartlan and Liam O'Connor, with guest readings from special guests Sabina Higgins, James Connolly Heron, grandson of James Connolly, Stella Larkin McConnon, granddaughter of Jim Larkin, and poet MacDara Woods.
SEPTEMBER 1913
William Butler Yeats
What need you, being come to sense,
But fumble in a greasy till
And add the halfpence to the pence
And prayer to shivering prayer, until
You have dried the marrow from the bone?
For men were born to pray and save:
Romantic Ireland is dead and gone
It's with O'Leary in the grave.
Cle Club
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