09-30-2023, 09:33 AM
Jim Larkin was a big labor organizer back in 1913 in Dublin, so big there is a statue of him on O'Connell Street in Dublin. The statue stands approximately where he gave a speech on one of the Bloody Sunday's. In this case the police did a baton charge through the crowd gathered to listen to Larkin. The police also attacked anyone in the area. One person died. Hundreds went to the hospital. Strumpett City tells the story of that event and many more from various viewpoints from the lowest levels of society to the highest and how they saw those events.
Basically, things are bad before the Lockout, where the employers said no one could work unless they foreswore Larkin's Labor Union and no one would, things are bad during the Lockout and then they get worse. It's not a happy time. People starve. The people in the tenements live terrible lives. The clergy are of no help, either alcoholic from the misery around them or on the side of Employers. The Lockout was a terrible time and Strumpet City depicts it in all its squalor.
Basically, things are bad before the Lockout, where the employers said no one could work unless they foreswore Larkin's Labor Union and no one would, things are bad during the Lockout and then they get worse. It's not a happy time. People starve. The people in the tenements live terrible lives. The clergy are of no help, either alcoholic from the misery around them or on the side of Employers. The Lockout was a terrible time and Strumpet City depicts it in all its squalor.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm