This document outlines the course content for a class on the Irish Labour Movement from 1889 to 1924. The class will cover topics such as the rise of New Unionism, James Connolly and the Irish Socialist Republican Party, Jim Larkin and 'Larkinism', the 1913 Lockout and Irish Citizen Army, syndicalism from 1917-1921, and the civil war and retreat from 1921-1924. It lists required and supplementary reading on these topics from authors such as Emmet O'Connor, Conor McCabe, Lorcan Collins, Fintan Lane, and David Lynch.

1. HHIS403 - Political & Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Ireland
The Irish Labour Movement, 1889 – 1924
Friday @ 10am
Introduction: Irish Labour movement, 1889-1924
The Rise of New Unionism, 1889-1906
James Connolly and the Irish Socialist Republican Party, 1896-1904
Jim Larkin and ‘Larkinism’, 1907-1914
The 1913 Lockout and the Irish Citizen Army
Syndicalism, 1917-1921
Civil War and Retreat, 1921-1924
Conclusion
Required Reading:
Emmet O’Connor, A Labour History of Ireland 1824-2000 (Dublin: UCD Press, 2011): 51-127.
Supplementary Reading:
Conor McCabe, ‘Your only God is profit’: Irish class relations and the 1913 Lockout ’ in David Convery (ed)
Locked Out: A Century of Irish Working-Class Life (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2013)
Lorcan Collins, James Connolly: 16 Lives (Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2012)
Fintan Lane, The Origins of Modern Irish Socialism, 1881-1896 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1997)
David Lynch, Radical Politics in Modern Ireland: The Irish Socialist Republican Party, 1896-1904
(Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2005)
Emmet O’Connor, Syndicalism in Ireland, 1917-1923 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1988)
Emmet O’Connor, James Larkin (Cork: Cork University Press, 2002)

34. March 1914 – ITGWU
voices opposition to plans
to partition Ireland under
future Home Rule deal