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election handbill / The Man in Jail, 1920

Stockport Election 1920. "The Man in Jail" handbill notification of a demonstration in support of William O'Brien, at Armoury Square. Listing Alec Lynn and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington among supporting speakers.

handbill / No sweating / No starvation wages

Irish Women Workers' Co-Op Society leaflet / handbill announcing Christmas sale of shirts. 'No sweating / No starvation wages'.

pamphlet / Sixty Years Ago… The Dublin Dockers "Trun" me out

Pamphlet. 'Sixty Years Ago… The Dublin Dockers "Trun" me out', by William O'Brien. Reprinted from the December issue of Liberty Magazine. Irish Printers Ltd., Dublin.

tobacco pouch / Jim Larkin

Rectangular brown leather pocket book / wallet with fold over flap and snap fasteners. The tobacco pouch said to have belonged to Jim Larkin (See letter 1995.39.2).

letter / Jim Larkin

Letter from Delia Colgan to Paddy Mooney, regarding the tobacco pouch which belonged to Jim Larkin.

buttonhole badge / Markievicz, Irish Transport Workers' Union, 1913

Buttonhole badge of the Irish Transport Workers' Union, 1913. Brass with red enamel. In the form of an open right hand on which appears I.T./1913/W.U. Inspector Michael Mannion states that this badge was worn by Countess Markievicz during the Labour troubles in 1913, and that it 'was stolen from...

buttonhole badge / Irish Transport Workers' Union, 1915

Buttonhole badge. Irish Transport Workers' Union 1915. Shield-shaped metal badge, with blue enamel. Inscribed on the front in brass lettering is three crowns with 'I.T.W.U. 1915'. Maker not marked. Relic of the fighting in Dublin during the 1916 Rising.

badge / Metropolitan House Painters, 1913

Labour Day badge, 1913. 3 inches by 4 inches long. White silk ribbon with braided border all round and with 1 inch metal thread fringe all round and plain steel pin. In green letters across / METROPOLITAN / HOUSE / PAINTERS / TRUSTEE with a straight line above and below / LABOUR DAY / 1913

postcard / 1913 Lockout

Postcard cartoon by Ernest Cavanagh. Satirising William Martin Murphy and the Scottish Borderers and listing people killed in the 1913 baton charge and the 1914 shootings at Bachelors Walk.

handbill / Irish Tramway Men's Union, 1913

1913 Strike leaflet, headed 'Dublin Tramwaymen's Fight/For Freedom and Justice!'. Handbill, Irish Tramway Men's Union, 1913.

leaflet / I.T.G.W.U. Election, 1919

Irish Transport and General Workers' Union Election 1919. Handbill listing candidates and times of ballot.

article / Nineteen-Thirteen - its Significance

'Nineteen-Thirteen - its Significance'. By William O'Brien, Secretary, Dublin Lockout Committee, 1913. 4pp. reprint of William O'Brien's article, ex An Dion, December 1934.

handbill / Workers Support your Fellow Workers - Don't Wear Clothes Made By Scab Labour, 1913

Anti-Sweating handbill, issued by the Tailors' Society and listing Trade Union and non-Trade Union firms. .Workers Support your Fellow Workers - Don't Wear Clothes Made By Scab Labour'. 1913.

handbill / Lock out in the Tailoring Trade, 1913

'Lock Out in the Tailoring Trade'. Tailoring trade Lockout. Handbill re-issued by the Irish Tailors & Tailoresses Union. 1913.

leaflet / Gleeson and Blacklegging, 1913

Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses handbill. Gleeson and Blacklegging. Stating that 'Two months ago we informed the public that Gleeson of 11 Upper O'Connell Street had locked out his Trade Union tailors, abolished his workshop, and now gets all his works made in sweating dens by...

leaflet / Russian Revolution and the Societ Republic

Russian Revolution and Republican Committee (Dublin Trades Council and Socialist Party of Ireland) handbill announcing first annual commemoration of the Russian Revolution and the Societ Republic, at the Mansion House on 18 November. Circa 1918

leaflet / Don't Wear Clothes Made by Scab Labour, 1913

'Workers, Support you Fellow Workers. Don't Wear Clothes Made by Scab Labour'. Handbill issued by Tailors' Society listing Trade Union firms and scab or non-Trade Union firms in Dublin, with the slogan, 'Help the Tailors to stamp out the Sweating System'.