The postal strike of 1922

Striking postal workers march, September 1922

Strikers march, September 1922

Cathal Brennan tells the story of the postal strike of September 1922, in which the postal unions struck against pay cuts in the infancy of the Irish Free State and at the height of the Irish civil war.

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ThePostalStrikeof1922.pdf (881.54 KB)

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