Emmet O’connor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emmet O’connor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emmet |
| FAMILY NAME | O’connor |
| SIGNATURE | O’CONNOR E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ulster |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How British was Larkinism? Big Jim Larkin and the British Labour Movement, 1907–1914
Born in Liverpool in 1874, Big Jim Larkin always insisted that he was Irish. No historian has ever challenged him on the claim, or seen him as anything other than a uniquely Irish figure. And yet there was a British dimension to Larkin’s outlook. Liverpool gave him a love of soccer and travel, and shaped his interest in socialism and literature. He first went to Ireland in 1907 as an agent of a British trade union and remained keenly engaged with…
John Halstead
Labour History in Ireland’s ‘Decade of Centenaries’
In 2012 the governments in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland launched their Decade of Centenaries projects to ‘focus’ on ‘significant centenaries’ occurring between 2012 and 2022-3, with an unusual degree of co-ordination between them. The initiatives have generated major public interest in the commemoration of events like the third Home Rule crisis, the 1913 Lockout, the 1916 rising, the First World War, the War of Independence, exten…
A review of Christopher J.V. Loughlin, Labour and the politics of disloyalty in Belfast, 1921–39
Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance
Neither democratic nor a programme
On 21 January 1919, the first Dáil adopted four constitutional documents, the best known of which is the Democratic Programme, a statement of social values, based on proposals from the Labour Party. The Programme is usually regarded as a cynical reward to Labour for its abstention from the 1918 general election, and nationalist elites have frequently been criticised for reneging on it. This paper will argue that the Programme was written to advan…
Old Wine in New Bottles? Syndicalism and ‘Fakirism’ in the Great Labour Unrest, 1911-1914
No conceptual tool is as useful or as controversial for analysing the Great Labour Unrest as syndicalism. This is not to say that syndicalism explains the militancy, but that it offers a prism through which we can examine its characteristics and the ideas behind it, and cut to the core of the historiographical debate. The paper argues that the industrial conflict of 1889 to 1914 was all of a piece, and that the Great Unrest of 1911-1914 was its u…
Irish Trade Union Organization
The Irish Labour History Society
William Walker, Irish Labour and ‘Chinese slavery’ in South Africa, 1904–6
In 1903 the governor of South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner, agreed to proposals from the owners of the Transvaal gold mines to alleviate the labour shortage caused by the recent war by recruiting workers from China. The Conservative government of Arthur Balfour gave its approval in May 1904, and had overall responsibility for the scheme until it yielded power to the Liberals in December 1905. The so-called ‘coolies’ were to be indentured on a three…
Bolshevising Irish communism
During the 1920s the Communist International, or Comintern, attached exceptional importance to Ireland for the potential of its anti-imperialist forces to foment revolution at home, enlist the Irish diaspora, and encourage unrest in Britain and the Empire. In this way the Comintern might strengthen its relatively feeble bridgehead in the anglophone world and embarrass Britain, the keystone of Russia’s enemies. However, the Comintern encountered r…
James Larkin in the United States, 1914—23
On 25 October 1914 James Larkin boarded the Liverpool boat at Dublin, shadowed by two detectives. Ahead, he hoped, lay an international lecture tour that would restore his vigour and reputation as one of the greatest labour agitators in the English-speaking world. Larkin's decision to leave Ireland was not in itself controversial. It was widely believed at the time, and since, that he was exhausted by the 1913 lock-out and would return after a fe…
Ireland
Jim Larkin and the Communist Internationals, 1923–9
In 1924 James Larkin agreed with British and Soviet communists to undertake the leadership of communism in Ireland. The triangular relationship soon became poisoned with dissension, insubordination and deceit. Not only did Larkin refuse to form a communist party, he went to great lengths to ensure that no one else did either. By 1925 British communists, contrary to Moscow’s directives, were attempting to work in Ireland independently of Larkin, a…
Essay in Historiography
Active Sabotage in Industrial Conflict, 1917-23
Old Wine in New Bottles? Syndicalism and ‘Fakirism’ in the Great Labour Unrest, 1911-1914
No conceptual tool is as useful or as controversial for analysing the Great Labour Unrest as syndicalism. This is not to say that syndicalism explains the militancy, but that it offers a prism through which we can examine its characteristics and the ideas behind it, and cut to the core of the historiographical debate. The paper argues that the industrial conflict of 1889 to 1914 was all of a piece, and that the Great Unrest of 1911-1914 was its u…
Jim Larkin and the Communist Internationals, 1923–9
In 1924 James Larkin agreed with British and Soviet communists to undertake the leadership of communism in Ireland. The triangular relationship soon became poisoned with dissension, insubordination and deceit. Not only did Larkin refuse to form a communist party, he went to great lengths to ensure that no one else did either. By 1925 British communists, contrary to Moscow’s directives, were attempting to work in Ireland independently of Larkin, a…
Active Sabotage in Industrial Conflict, 1917-23
Active Sabotage in Industrial Conflict, 1917-23
Essay in Historiography
Jim Larkin and the Communist Internationals, 1923–9
In 1924 James Larkin agreed with British and Soviet communists to undertake the leadership of communism in Ireland. The triangular relationship soon became poisoned with dissension, insubordination and deceit. Not only did Larkin refuse to form a communist party, he went to great lengths to ensure that no one else did either. By 1925 British communists, contrary to Moscow’s directives, were attempting to work in Ireland independently of Larkin, a…
James Larkin in the United States, 1914—23
On 25 October 1914 James Larkin boarded the Liverpool boat at Dublin, shadowed by two detectives. Ahead, he hoped, lay an international lecture tour that would restore his vigour and reputation as one of the greatest labour agitators in the English-speaking world. Larkin's decision to leave Ireland was not in itself controversial. It was widely believed at the time, and since, that he was exhausted by the 1913 lock-out and would return after a fe…
Ireland
Bolshevising Irish communism
During the 1920s the Communist International, or Comintern, attached exceptional importance to Ireland for the potential of its anti-imperialist forces to foment revolution at home, enlist the Irish diaspora, and encourage unrest in Britain and the Empire. In this way the Comintern might strengthen its relatively feeble bridgehead in the anglophone world and embarrass Britain, the keystone of Russia’s enemies. However, the Comintern encountered r…
The Irish Labour History Society
William Walker, Irish Labour and ‘Chinese slavery’ in South Africa, 1904–6
In 1903 the governor of South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner, agreed to proposals from the owners of the Transvaal gold mines to alleviate the labour shortage caused by the recent war by recruiting workers from China. The Conservative government of Arthur Balfour gave its approval in May 1904, and had overall responsibility for the scheme until it yielded power to the Liberals in December 1905. The so-called ‘coolies’ were to be indentured on a three…
Irish Trade Union Organization
Old Wine in New Bottles? Syndicalism and ‘Fakirism’ in the Great Labour Unrest, 1911-1914
No conceptual tool is as useful or as controversial for analysing the Great Labour Unrest as syndicalism. This is not to say that syndicalism explains the militancy, but that it offers a prism through which we can examine its characteristics and the ideas behind it, and cut to the core of the historiographical debate. The paper argues that the industrial conflict of 1889 to 1914 was all of a piece, and that the Great Unrest of 1911-1914 was its u…
Neither democratic nor a programme
On 21 January 1919, the first Dáil adopted four constitutional documents, the best known of which is the Democratic Programme, a statement of social values, based on proposals from the Labour Party. The Programme is usually regarded as a cynical reward to Labour for its abstention from the 1918 general election, and nationalist elites have frequently been criticised for reneging on it. This paper will argue that the Programme was written to advan…
A review of Christopher J.V. Loughlin, Labour and the politics of disloyalty in Belfast, 1921–39
Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance
Labour History in Ireland’s ‘Decade of Centenaries’
In 2012 the governments in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland launched their Decade of Centenaries projects to ‘focus’ on ‘significant centenaries’ occurring between 2012 and 2022-3, with an unusual degree of co-ordination between them. The initiatives have generated major public interest in the commemoration of events like the third Home Rule crisis, the 1913 Lockout, the 1916 rising, the First World War, the War of Independence, exten…
John Halstead
How British was Larkinism? Big Jim Larkin and the British Labour Movement, 1907–1914
Born in Liverpool in 1874, Big Jim Larkin always insisted that he was Irish. No historian has ever challenged him on the claim, or seen him as anything other than a uniquely Irish figure. And yet there was a British dimension to Larkin’s outlook. Liverpool gave him a love of soccer and travel, and shaped his interest in socialism and literature. He first went to Ireland in 1907 as an agent of a British trade union and remained keenly engaged with…
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