#OTD in 1979 – The memorial statue to James Larkin on O’Connell Street, Dublin is unveiled.

15/06/2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

Jim Larkin, a revolutionary socialist, dominated the Irish Trade Union movement. G. B. Shaw once described him as ‘the greatest Irishman since Parnell’. Today a statue of “Big Jim” stands on O’Connell Street in Dublin. The inscription on the front of the monument is an extract in French, Irish and English from one of his […]

#OTD in 1916 – Approximately 1,000 copies of The Proclamation of the Irish Republic are printed in Liberty Hall in a print office set up by James Connolly.

23/04/2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

The proclamation would be read by Pádraig Pearse outside the General Post Office on Sackville Street (now called O’Connell Street) on Monday 24th April. The proclamation was printed secretly on an old and poorly maintained Wharfedale Stop Cylinder Press in the printing office that had been set up by James Connolly in the basement in […]

#OTD in 1979 – The memorial statue to James Larkin on O’Connell Street, Dublin is unveiled.

15/06/2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

#OTD in 1916 – Approximately 1,000 copies of The Proclamation of the Irish Republic are printed in Liberty Hall in a print office set up by James Connolly.

23/04/2022.Reading time 4 minutes.

#OTD in 1979 – The memorial statue to James Larkin on O’Connell Street, Dublin is unveiled.

15/06/2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

#OTD in 1916 – Approximately 1,000 copies of The Proclamation of the Irish Republic are printed in Liberty Hall in a print office set up by James Connolly.

23/04/2021.Reading time 4 minutes.

#OTD in 1979 – The memorial statue to James Larkin on O’Connell Street, Dublin is unveiled.

15/06/2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

#OTD in 1916 – Approximately 1,000 copies of The Proclamation of the Irish Republic are printed in Liberty Hall in a print office set up by James Connolly.

23/04/2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

#OTD in 1979 – The memorial statue to James Larkin on O’Connell Street, Dublin is unveiled.

15/06/2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

#OTD in 1916 – Approximately 1,000 copies of The Proclamation of the Irish Republic are printed in Liberty Hall in a print office set up by James Connolly.

23/04/2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

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#OTD in 1979 – The memorial statue to James Larkin on O’Connell Street, Dublin is unveiled.

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#OTD in 1916 – Approximately 1,000 copies of The Proclamation of the Irish Republic are printed in Liberty Hall in a print office set up by James Connolly.

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