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James Larkin

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I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.


— James Larkin


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I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.


— James Larkin


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I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.


— James Larkin


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Man must be associated with his fellows.


— James Larkin


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Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.


— James Larkin


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Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.


— James Larkin


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The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.


— James Larkin


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The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.


— James Larkin


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The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland.


— James Larkin


#ireland #land #people

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.


— James Larkin


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Led by Murphy over four hundred of the city's employers retaliated by requiring their workers to sign a pledge not to be a member of the ITGWU and not to engage in sympathetic strikes. However as a result of a libel award against him won by William O'Brien which he had refused to pay he was an undischarged bankrupt and could not take up his seat. Both had craft unions for skilled workers but Larkin's main aim was to unionise the unskilled workers as well.

He and his family later moved to a small cottage in Burren southern County Down. Growing up in poverty he received little formal education and began working in a variety of jobs while still a child.

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