Galleries - The Lockout

Strikers cheering outside Liberty Hall, the headquarters of the ITGWU. (Illustrated London News, Sept 6 1913)

A demonstration in Sackville street in September 1913. (Illustrated London News, 13 Sept 1913)

Minutes from the Strike Committee of the ITGWU, dated 15 October 1913, discusses the issue of food tickets for striking workers and their families. (National Library of Ireland, MS 7298)

North Wall, Dublin where the strike took place. (National Library of Ireland, LROY 11590)

An Ernest Kavanagh cartoon depicting a cheery trade-unionist facing a rather dishevelled William Martin Murphy. (National Library of Ireland)

Liberty Hall, the headquarters of the ITGWU. (National Library of Ireland, KE 202)

Jim Larkin, the leader of the lockout. (Illustrated London News, Nov 22 1913)

The riots between DMP and civilians in Dublin on 1 September 1913. (Dublin City Public Library)

A letter from the Bedford branch of the National Union of Railway. It demands an impartial inquiry and also calls for 'the punishment of the uniformed who were guilty of the unprovoked assaults on the people' of Dublin. (National Archives

An Ernest Kavanagh cartoon highly critical of the behaviour of the police and of the Commission of Inquiry. (National Library of Ireland)

Jim Larkin, in disguise, being led away by police outside the Imperial Hotel on 31 August 1913. (Bureau of Military History 1913-1921, Military Archives)

Larkin immediately after his release from prison on the shoulders of his supporters. (Illustrated London News, Nov 22 1913)

A letter from the secretary of the Shipping Federation to Sir James Dougherty requesting 'adequate police protection' at Sir John Rogerson's Quay to protect a ship carrying imported labourers. (National Archives of Ireland, CSO RP/1913
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