Are you a trade union member or are you a
resident of an area or a member of a family with
strong connections to the 1913 Lockout?Are you interested in recording and preserving
stories of the Lockout and analysing its importance
one hundred years on?Would you like to contribute to an oral history of
the Lockout to be published in 2013?
It really is time to get the ball rolling as far as 2013 goes, and the centenary of the Lockout gets closer and closer with each day. As part of the centenary plans from the 1913 Committee, an oral history group will be established. Few events hold the folk memory of the Lockout in Dublin, and if your family were involved in the dispute and a stories have been passed down, it’s time to get them on tape. This project is FETAC accredited and runs for six weeks from 15 September. All the info is in the PDF flyer below, click the link under the image for more.
[…] is a historian who uses oral testimony to explore her research interests. With Dr. Mary Muldowney, she organised the 1913 Lockout Alternative Visionsoral history project, training trade unionists and community activists to collect oral histories in […]