Connolly, the strike, and the children of Dublin
Part of a series of articles on Connolly: workersliberty.org/connolly James Connolly, in support of Jim Larkin, led the workers of Dublin in the great Labour War of 1913-14. The attempt to get strike-bound children to families in Britain and Northern Ireland that would take care of them during the strike was a major event in the Labour War. It led to a sectarian Catholic hue and cry. The then very strong “Catholic Orange Order”, the Ancient Order of Hibernians (Board of Erin), rioted and attacked strikers. Eventually it was direct physical force that stopped the transfer of strikers’ children...