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Third Home Rule Bill passed in House of Commons by 352 to 243
Location Dublin Date Friday, 7 July 1913 Redmond pleads with Nationalist MPs to attend House of Commons Fears are voiced about the Government’s House of […]
Member’s of James Larkin’s Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITGWU) begin tram strike in Dublin.
Date Monday, 26 August 1913 Dublin ‘Lockout’ begins: The Great Lockout of 1913 by Joseph E.A. Connell Jr James Larkin arrived in Ireland in 1907 […]
Riots and disturbances in Dublin following police baton-charges on Sackville (O’Connell) Street
Date Saturday, 31 August – Sunday, 1 September 1913 Inquest verdict: James Nolan killed by police baton Fund to support families of dead strikers The […]
Collapse of tenement houses on Church Street Dublin, resulting in the deaths of 7 people
Date Monday, 2 September 1913 The Church Street disaster, September 1913 In 1891 the RSAI initiated a photographic collection, which today consists of over 20,000 […]
Sir Edward Carson announces that an Ulster ‘Provisional Government’ will be formed should Home Rule be implemented
Date Saturday, 7 Sept 1913
The Ulster Unionist Council approves Carson’s proposal and designates that its standing committee will be the ‘central authority’ for the provisional government, to be headed by Carson
Date Tuesday, 24 September 1913
George Russell (AE) publishes open letter in Irish Times in response to the Dublin Lockout: ‘To the masters of Dublin’
Date Monday, 7 October 1913
In a letter to the Freeman’s Journal, Archbishop Walsh of Dublin denounces a plan to evacuate the children of Dublin workers to Britain
Date Monday, 21 Oct 1913
