Multitext - Dublin, 1913—Strike and Lockout

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Lancers trooping past Trinity College Dublin c. 1907.	Tram no. 169 at the corner of Grafton Street and Nassau Street.	Dublin's bustling tram system c. 1912.
'The Hare', a foodship, arrives in Dublin, 1913.	Larkin watches supply ships unloading from the quayside, 1913.	A crowd awaits the arrival of the first food ship from England, 28 September 1913.
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Heiton's coal being delivered under mounted police escort on O'Connell Street, 1913.	The Viceroy's party for the Horse Show, posing on the steps of the Viceregal Lodge, Phoenix Park.	Advertisement for William Martin Murphy's Dublin United Tramways Company, Ltd.
Men working at the junction of Gardiner Street and Dorset Street, laying a drainage pipe. On the building on the left can be seen a statue holding three balls—symbol of a pawn shop, an important place for the working class Dubliner.	Two young girls in the inner city going to get milk or water in the jug carried by one of them.	A collection of hats and coats for sale at a second-hand market in Horseman Row.
A tram travels down the quiet North Circular Road towards the Phoenix Park. Such fine houses were typical of the upper-middle classes of Dublin.	Idrone Terrace, Blackrock, Co. Dublin. A choice of transport was available to the residents of fashionable districts. They could avail of the trainline, trams, private cars or jarveys.	Advertisement hoarding on Church Street, showing a broad cross-section of products.
The Terenure tram passes through Rathmines on a fine day c. 1912.	Golf was growing to be a popular sport at the turn of the 20th-century. Note the young working class caddy on the right who is barefoot.	A member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, O'Connell Street. DMP members were noted for their tall stature.
Horses and drays (carts with no sides) being led out of the stableyard of Guinness's Brewery.	Steam and sailing ships in a busy Dublin port c. 1910. The two uniformed men in the foreground appear to be customs' officials or pilots.	Message from King George V to the people of Ireland on his departure from Dublin, July, 1911.
A view of O'Connell Bridge from Bachelor's Walk. The Carlisle building in the background was the site of "The Irish Independent" offices, owned by WIlliam Martin Murphy.	A photograph of Grafton Street c. 1911. The fashionable shopping-centre of the city. A jarvey in the foreground carries a bicycle on the roof as it heads in the direction of St. Stephen's Gr [...]	Trinity College on a Sunday afternoon c. 1910.
O'Connell Bridge and Burgh Quay from Bachelor's Walk. Notice the advertising on the trams.	Grafton Street Lower. Notice the marching policemen on the right with Trinity College in the background.	Postcard showing a view down O'Connell Street (renamed in 1882, but still referred to here as Sackville Street) from the bridge.
Westmoreland Street, looking towards the River Liffey.	View of the General Post Office and Nelson Pillar in the background. The latter was the starting point for most tram routes around the city.	View from the junction between O'Connell Street and O'Connell Bridge. The Custom House and the Loopline Bridge are visible in the background. The Loopline railway bridge spans the River Liffey and several streets in Dublin. It joins rail services from the south of Dublin to northern lines. D [...]
A busy afternoon in Earl Street at the the corner of O'Connell Street.	Poster advertising the Civic Exhibition held in Dublin in July 1914. It was intended to be a memorable event in the history of the city. However, the outbreak of World War I in Europe meant that the importance of the ex [...]	speakers
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test1	View of the Church St. housing scheme, 1918. Bird's eye view from the North East of the Beresford and Church Street housing scheme (146 dwellings), 1918.	Photograph of two homeless boys sleeping in a shop doorway, 1913. By September nearly 20,000 workers were locked out or on strike and workers and their families faced increased hardship. This picture illustrates the [...]
Group photo in Liverpool, 1913. Speakers photographed in Liverpool in support of Dublin workers . At back: 'Big' Jim Larkin and James Connolly. In front: Mrs Bamber (Liverpool Trades [...]	James Connolly photographed in 1911.	Cartoon depicting Larkin profiting from the misfortune of workers in 1913.
Larkin being arrested, 31 August 1913. He entered William Martin Murphy's Imperial Hotel in disguise and appeared on the balcony to the crowds below, before being arrested. What used to be [...]	Postcard of 'Big' Jim Larkin.	Sackville Street [O'Connell Street]. Police baton charge on 'Bloody Sunday', 31 August 1913.
William Martin Murphy, 1913.	Official proclamation issued on 29 August 1913. It prohibited the proposed meeting in Sackville St [O’Connell St] on 31 August 1913. On the 29 August 1913, before 10,000 people in Beresford Place, L [...]	Front Page of the Daily Mirror, 4 September 1913. At the bottom centre is James Keir Hardie, M.P. at the funeral of James Nolan on Wednesday, 3 September 1913.
Ishbel Maria Gordon, Lady Aberdeen (1857-1939). Lord and Lady Aberdeen held the Viceroyalty in 1886 and again from 1906 to 1915. Both fervent Home Rulers, they were aware of [...]	Poole Street, Dublin. Working class housing conditions in Ireland's capital city were terrible. Dublin's overcrowded and decaying Georgian terrac [...]	St. Patrick's Close c. 1900. Major social reforms of the day seemed to benefit only the rural labourer, to help prevent a recurrence of the violence of th [...]
Tenement room, Cornmarket Street, unfurnished, 1s. 9d. rent per week, 1913. Bare floorboards and little furniture was the norm for Dublin tenements. Some bread lies on the table and most of the cooking utensils have to be stor [...]	Deaths due to disease in Dublin Slums.	House accomodation of families, Dublin city 1841-1911.
Interior of a tenement flat c. 1913. A young child sleeps in a metal bed while her sister stands at the door. A chamber pot is visible in the corner: one W.C. in the yard might have to be [...]	Slum-dwellers on a derelict site at North Cumberland Street c. 1913. Surrounded on all side by tenements and poorly maintained buildings. Note the propped-up building on the left hand side of the photograph.	Propped-up buildings on Church Street, Dublin, 1913. Two tenement houses collapsed in Church Street on 2 September 1913. Fifteen people were trapped in the rubble: six died, and [...]
Slum-dwellers pose for a photograph on Church Street, c. 1913. Note the contrast between the clothing worn by the boy on the left and the boy in the centre of the photograph.	Slum-dwellers pose for the camera, c. 1912. The barefoot children on the right of the photograph seem more interested in what is happening down the other end of the street.	A woman taking water from a pump in one of the run-down courts off Beresford Street, c. 1912.
A group of mostly barefoot children stand with a woman at Summerhill, near Gardiner Street, c. 1913.	Children of the slums, c. 1912.	Two young boys from the tenements, c. 1913. Two barefoot boys pose for the camera dressed in female hand-me-down clothes. They are clearly many times too big for them.
Deaths per 1000 population in British cities, 1873-1909.	Percentage of Dublin premises entered as tenements, 1900.	Fundraising leaflet, Ladies' Association of Charity, Dublin. Reorganised by Margaret Aylward (1810-89), in 1853. This association also opened an orphanage in 1856 called St Brigid's, an anti-proselytising agency [...]
Plunkett's Cottages off Sandwich Street, c. 1913.	Forbes' Cottages, off Marrowbone Lane, Grand Canal Harbour, 1913.	Late 19th-century photograph of Fade Street.
Children playing in a derelict site, Maguinness's court, off Townsend Street, c. 1913.	Children of the tenements, c. 1910. At the turn of the century nearly a quarter of the population of Dublin lived in one room. A building with one hundred inhabitants usually had just tw [...]	Penny dinners, c. 1910. State provision for the poor of Dublin was very limited. Most of the available relief came from charitable organisations, most of them run by the Chur [...]
Michael's Lane c. 1900. This photograph shows the slums near Christchurch Cathedral. They were demolished a short time later to make way for streets [...]	Marshalsea Lane c. 1900. This led to Marshalsea (1700), first a debtors' prison, later a barracks and finally a slum. A house in this lane was used in 1803 as a depot for arms [...]	Newmarket Street, 2 closets and a single stand pipe for 70 people, 1913.
Brady's Cottages, 16 Francis Street, 1913.	Henrietta Buildings, Henrietta Place, 1913. Henrietta Place is a small laneway leading from Henrietta Street to North King Street roughly parallel to Bolton Street. In t [...]	Ward's Cottages, Church Street, 1913.
Tickell's Court, 18 Beresford Street, 1913.	19th-century photograph of Church Street.	Tenement buildings in a poor state of repair at Angle Court, 1913. A corruption of Nangle's Place. The pump in the foreground was the only source of water. Washing a drying clothes was a daily problem for families. Th [...]

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