Posts Tagged ‘conscription’
9 June 2018: Lá na mBan commemoration, Mansion House, Dublin 1
On Saturday 9 June 2019 SIPTU hosted a commemorative event in the forecourt of the Mansion House, Dublin to mark the centenary of ‘Lá na mBan’, 9 June 1918. This had arisen from the conscription crisis of 1918, and thousands of female activists took to the streets for Women’s Day/Lá na mBan to register another concerted…
Read More23 April 2018: History Ireland ‘Hedge School’: ‘The cause of Labour? The 1918 general strike against conscription’, Liberty Hall, Dublin 1
On Monday 23 April 2018 a History Ireland ‘Hedge School’ debate took place in Liberty Hall, Dublin 1, on the subject of ‘The cause of Labour? The 1918 general strike against conscription. On 23 April 1918 the Irish Trade Union Congress, and the ITGWU in particular, called a one day general strike against the imposition of…
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