Irish social and political historian Ann Matthews together with Steve Griffith, chair of the Celtic Junction Arts Center’s Education Committee, discuss the Dublin Lockout of 1913. This seminal event in Irish history exposed the poverty and struggle of Dublin’s working class just prior to the Easter Rising of 1916. It also serves as the center of James Plunkett’s most famous work, Strumpet City, and for Ann Matthews’ play, LOCKOUT.

Recommended reading:

Renegades: Irish Republican Women 1900-1922, Ann Matthews, Mercier Press, 2010

Dissidents: Irish Republican Women 1923-1941, Ann Matthews, Mercier Press, 2012

The Irish Citizens Army, Ann Matthews, Mercier Press, 2014

Poverty paraded in the streets, 1913: the mothers and children; a chapter in  A Capital in
Conflict: Dublin City and the 1913 Lockout, Ann Matthews, published by Dublin City Council, 2013

Strumpet City, James Plunkett, Gill & Macmillan, 2013 (originally published in 1969 by Century)

More about Dr. Matthews at http://annmatthews.ie/