The General Strike against Militarism, Ireland April 1922
By John Dorney On December 6 1921, the Anglo Irish Treaty was signed, setting up the Irish Free State. The deal, falling …
Striking Against Colonialism: The General Strike in the Irish and Algerian Revolutions
By Dónal Hassett The recent Centenary of the Irish General Strike of 1920 has underlined the potential power of a movement that …
The Hunger strike and General strike of 1920
By John Dorney In early April 1920, a young IRA man, Christopher ‘Todd’ Andrews was arrested by British troops at his family …
Robert Byrne – the IRA Volunteer and Trade Unionist whose killing sparked the “Limerick Soviet”.
By Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc Although there had been some skirmishes between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and British forces in Ireland …
The General Strike and Irish independence
How the syndicalist idea of a general strike contributed to the independence of Ireland. By John Dorney In the late 19th and …