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Big Jim Larkin : hero or wrecker? / Emmet O'Connor.
Lippincott Library HD6670.3.Z55 L3758 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Connor, Emmet, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Larkin, James, 1876-1947.
- Larkin, James.
- Labor unions--Officials and employees--Ireland--Biography.
- Labor unions.
- Labor unions--Officials and employees.
- Communists.
- Radicals.
- Labor leaders.
- Ireland.
- Labor leaders--Ireland--Biography.
- Radicals--Ireland--Biography.
- Communists--Ireland--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 353 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin, Ireland : University College Dublin Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- James Larkin remains the central figure in the history, public history, and mythology of Irish Labour. A powerful orator and brilliant agitator, in popular consciousness Big Jim is forever linked with the 1913 Lockout and the formation of the modern Irish Labour movement. Since 1909 he has been the hero of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, the Workers' Union of Ireland, and SIPTU. For all workers, and all employers, his name is synonymous with militancy and solidarity. His controversial career also saw him start a civil war in Dublin trade unionism, and vilified as a wrecker by former comrades. This is the firs full-length biography about his life. It goes beyond the public figure to explore the hidden side of a very private person who hated people knowing his business and kept his ambitions and personal demons behind a veil of secrecy. -- Publisher description
- Contents:
- A man's man 1874-1906
- 'Piping days and roaring nights' 1907
- The leaving of Liverpool 1908
- The Liverpool leftovers 1909-10
- Wrath and hope and wonder 1910-11
- Larkin's next step 1912-13
- Crushing Larkin 1913
- Mercury takes flight 1914
- Kaiser Jim 1914-17
- Red Jim 1918-23
- The morals of a European foreign minister 1923-4
- My way and no way 1924-6
- Retreat from Moscow 1927-9
- The Larkintern 1929-33
- Ishmael 1934-40
- Evening star 1941-7
- Wirkungsgeschichte.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-340) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781906359935
- 1906359938
- OCLC:
- 926746289
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