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    James Larkin

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    The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area. ↗


    — James Larkin

    #birth #cases #certain #conscience #each

    The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph. ↗


    — James Larkin

    #cast #creatures #enlarged #got #horrid

    Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation. ↗


    — James Larkin

    #constant #dislocation #essential #may #means

    Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods. ↗


    — James Larkin

    #foulest #methods #resorted #those #want

    We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight. ↗


    — James Larkin

    #badly #beaten #bones #fight #make

    We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration. ↗


    — James Larkin

    #inspiration #movement #new #newer #now

    We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral. ↗


    — James Larkin

    #danger #duty #faults #funeral #go

    We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years. ↗


    — James Larkin

    #desolation #enemy #fields #fight #hills

    You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory. ↗


    — James Larkin

    #ensure #may #own #policy #succeed






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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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