‘Rough and ready work’: The Special Infantry Corps

Free State troops take prisoners

Free State troops take prisoners

Article by John Dorney telling the story of the Special Infantry Corps, a military unit set up during the civil war of 1922-3 to suppress agrarian agitation and strikes.

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Striking postal workers march, September 1922

The postal strike of 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…

Police attack strikers on bloody Sunday

The Dublin lockout, 1913 - John Dorney

A short history of Ireland’s most significant industrial dispute: the mass lockout of 20,000 workers by 400 employers in Dublin from August 1913…

The 1918 general strike

The general strike and Irish independence

Interesting article by John Dorney on the syndicalist tactic of the general strike and its relationship with the struggle for Irish independence…

Charge of the New Red Brigade - The Independent on Red Action

Article from The Independent on Sunday about socialist group Red Action, anti-fascism, the IRA and…