Description
The Cork Examiner (Popularly known as “The Paper”)
A great front page capturing a historical time in Ireland. A time of unrest and upheaval. The workers of Ireland are looking for fair play and they are prepared to strike if they have to. The headline article covers the Dublin strike of 1913 when big Jim Larkin organised the workforce. Conditions could not be tolerated any longer. In 1913, one third of Dublin's population lived in slums. 30,000 families lived in 15,000 tenements. The situation was dire. These conflicts led to the most severe and important industrial dispute in Irish history, and finally to the 1914 Dublin lock-out...
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Dimensions: 16” X 10” approx.