The labour leader Jim Larkin was international news when he departed Ireland in 1914. In America, Larkin would cross paths with the FBI founder J. Edgar Hoover, landing in prison for 'Criminal Anarchy'. What did all of this mean back in Dublin? My guest is Ronan Burtenshaw, author of a recent piece on Larkin for Jacobin magazine: https://jacobin.com/2024/01/jim-larkin-ireland-labor-150
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The Battle of Tallaght: 'Yankee Fenians' and 1867
'Then Mount Jerome for the Protestants.'
The Rising of the Moon (Jim Larkin Part I)
Before Mosley: The British Fascisti in Dublin
Flying Fists and Union Jacks
From Ten Till Dusk: 200 Years of the RHA (with Cristín Leach)
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The Irish Supernatural (with Kathy Rose O'Brien and Brian J. Showers)
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Dublin in Maps: From the Soviet Union to D6W (with Joseph Brady)
Dónal Lunny: From Emmet Spiceland to Kate Bush
Jim Fitzpatrick: On Che, Phil Lynott and Sinéad O'Connor
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