Seminar tomorrow in Kilcullen on forgotten Irish strikes
They are the Limerick Soviet and the North Kildare Farm Labourers Strike, both of which happened in 1919.
The Seminar will be in Kilcullen Heritage Centre. It is a free event, running 11am-1pm, but booking is essential at 045 481613.
The speaker on the Limerick Soviet will be Liam Cahill, historian, writer, newspaper columnist (and previously an RTE journalist with your editor when I worked there through the 1980s). He is the author of the best-selling Centenary Edition of 'Forgotten Revolution, The Limerick Soviet 1919', remembering the people, personalities and events that made 1919 such a pivotal year in the Irish War of Independence and Civil War 1919-23.
The talk on the North Kildare Labourers Strike will be given by Terry Dunne, who has covered it in a definitive paper, 'The Agricultural Workers' Movement in the Irish Revolution: The Case of County Kildare'.
The Seminar will also be the occasion of the launch of the CD ‘Songs from the Short Grass’ by Darren Brereton and friends. This is an album of Kildare songs produced by the Federation.
The Seminar is supported by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht under the Community Strand of the Decade of Centenaries programme.
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