POST 18 TOWN NEWS Tuesday, 5 March, 2019 NEWSBRIEFS Glenshane House, Gelvin Historical Dungiven Digital Computer Course (Browse Internet, Email, Shop Online, Stay Safe Online, Use Your Camera, Download Apps) Society to launch starting on Wednesday, 20th March (either day or evening available) 6 weeks. Fee £25 Internet Safety Course will be held on Monday 25th March 10am-12.30pm. Fee £10. Learn how to Browse the their third publication internet safely, Spam Emails, Anti Virus Software, Scammers Gelvin Historical Society Items relating to landlords, near one of the police sta- Street, Dun- & Hacks, Privacy & Safety is pleased to announce the the and Dungiven tions of Newtownlimavady, given and Settings. launch of their third publi- Railway, cock-fighting, fa- on Friday last. At the village everyone is To book your place telephone cation, The GELVIN TIMES-a talities, sport, the weather, of Carne, within three miles invited to Mary on 028 777 42494. journey of discovery, having hiring-fairs, church matters of Dungiven, a revenue police come along. published Gelvin the Home and much, much more are offi cer and his party made a Refresh- Place in 2012 and Do You included and provide inter- seizure of some...... ments will Mind the Time? in 2017. esting reading. Do not be sur- This attractive, full colour be served. This 72 page magazine con- prised if you fi nd an ancestor magazine is a perfect match The magazine, priced at £5, 07593083956. tains local news items from getting a mention. A gallery of for the society’s earlier publi- will be on sale from the week The Society is grateful to DERRY POST 2018 while the bulk of the con- photographs is also included. cations and will make a most commencing 18th March in tent recounts historical news The following snippet is appealing and unique gift for the usual outlets in Dungi- Borough Council (Culture, items, many from the 1800s, from an April 1836 news item Gelvin and Roe Valley exiles ven, Drumsurn, Limavady, Arts and Heritage Grants NEWS THAT HITS HOME which must be of interest to recorded in the magazine. around the world. , Gortnaghey, Burnfoot Scheme) and to The Commu- everyone, especially to those REVENUE POLICE ---- FATAL The launch will take place at and . Further details nity Foundation for Northern in the wider Roe Valley/Gelvin CONFLICT------A most unfor- 12 noon on Saturday 16 March and copies can be had by Ireland for their fi nancial as- area. tunate occurrence took place 2019 in the library, Main telephoning 028 77742377 or sistance with the publication. EVERY TUESDAY Bread and Roses Local Textile Workers active on International Women’s Day 2019 The courageous and success- ful strikes by textile workers in the shirt factories of Man- hattan and Massachusetts during 1908 and 1909 were the fi rst ever strikes organised by women and for women’s demands such as equal pay. They are seen as the start of women becoming active for their rights in all corners of the globe. In 1910 the second “World Conference of Socialist Women” was held in Copen- hagen/Denmark. It passed a motion by German activists Clara Zetkin and Käthe Dun- Clara Zetkin was a German activist. ker to mark and celebrate the struggle of the American mill- Marion Baur, of Flax Mill, will be presenting women at their work in Dungiven with a red carnation to workers with a world-wide mark International Women’s Day on Friday. women’s day on March 8 – In- ternational Women’s Day was I can be here to visit working Women’s Day as well.” They are proud to be part of born. women on the day “ says Mar- “Reclaim the Agenda”, the a huge and growing number The song “Bread and Roses”, ion who has been involved in broad alliance of women’s – of activities all over the world now famous and sung all over activities around March 8 for rights – activists, trade union- around March 8. There is no the world in many languages many years. ists and politically involved county known now where In- origins from Lawrence / Mas- “There is absolutely no rea- women, is organising a series ternational Women’s Day is sachusetts where it was fi rst son to ease the struggle for of events in not marked in one form or the written down in 1912 - the women’s rights in 2019. In this year, highlight will be a other. beautiful tradition of present- many corners of the world and rally in Belfast on March 9. Marion continued: “It was ing women at work with a indeed here in Europe women The overall subject of the our sisters in the American fl ower certainly origins from bear the brunt of economic cri- activities will be commemo- mills who started this – I think that. sis, suffer from cuts, especially rating the centenary of the as textile-workers today we In Dungiven, textile workers the barbaric lack of money for murder of Rosa Luxemburg should feel obliged to carry on have been keeping the tradi- health-care, are underpaid and in Berlin (January 15, 1919). the good tradition and at the tion alive for several years fi nd it hard to make the ends The Member of Parliament same time be aware that In- now and they are going to do meet. Not only are the roses and women’s rights activist ternational Women’s Day is as this year. scarce, the bread is hard was brutally killed by a group far from being just a ‘historic Linen weaver Marion Baur come-by for many as well.” of German elite-soldiers and event’ as ever. Pointing the fi n- and members of her small Marion’s team is going to thrown into the “Landwehr ger at women’s problems and team will be out on March 8 welcome Bronagh Skett for Kanal”. Her killers were known their struggles is as important to visit women at work and the fi rst time this year. Born to the authorities but never as it was over a hundred years present them with a red car- in , she went to charged. ago and celebrating their suc- nation. The owner of County live in New Zealand and was Marion Baur said: “It’s good cesses is making us happy. Derry’s only active linen- trained as a weaver there. and right to remember Rosa There would be no right for weaving mill is delighted to She is now back in the home and her struggle for working women to vote, nothing like actually be on the streets her- – place, has her own weaving people - and especially wom- equal opportunities to find self this time. loom going and does part – en’s rights, we can learn a lot work, had it not been for the “During the past three years time work to Flax Mill. from it for our lives today.” struggle of women of the gen- I was always asked to speak at Marion said: “Great to wel- Marion and her colleagues erations before us. Much has a large women’s day event in come Bronagh, not just at work will be visiting about ten been achieved but much more Rosa Luxemburg was murdered 100 years ago. Berlin – this year I made sure but active on International places where women work. has to be gained.”