An interesting character I came across while reading Liam Cahill’s ‘Forgotten Revolution: Limerick Soviet 1919’. Farren was one four trade union leaders who traveled to Dublin to offer their support. He is described as having ‘had taken part in the 1916 Rising and was one of a group of trade union leaders with nationalist sympathies who were arrested afterwards’ [1] In the June 1915 College Green by-election, he came bitterly close to beating John Nannetti of the Irish Parliamentary Party. [2]
I haven’t been able to find much more information on him. This Irish Times obituary is probably the best I’ll come across.
Does anyone know if he actually took part in the Rising and if so, where he fought?
Monday, March 28, 1955 (1/2)
Monday, March 28, 1955 (2/2)
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[1] Liam Cahill, Forgotten revolution: Limerick Soviet 1919 : a threat to British power in Ireland (Dublin, 1990), p. 109
[2] Pádraig Yeates, Lockout: Dublin 1913 (Dublin, 2000), p, 575
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