Elliott J Gorn teaches history at Loyola Taking Part Message from the Mother Shandon University in Chicago and is the author of Mother Jones - “I’m a HELLRAISER !“ Mother Jones - The Most Dangerous Woman in Jones Committee Cork America (Hill and Wang 2001). He has John Barimo is an educator, coastal ecologist, Mary Harris was born in Cork city in July 1837 and was written several books on American history writer, advocate of social justice, and adventurer. Welcome to the 8th annual Spirit of Mother Jones Festival baptised at the North Cathedral on 1 st August. After the He earned a doctorate in Marine Biology and including Let the People See: The Story of and Summer School. Over 30 events will take place over , the Harris family emigrated to Canada. Emmett Till (Oxford University Press 2018). subsequently lectured at socially disadvantaged Mary qualified as a teacher and a seamstress. She third level institutions in the US Virgin Islands and Elliott attended the initial Cork Mother Jones festival in 2012. four days and nights in the Shandon Historic Quarter. married a union man, George Jones, in 1861. She lost Miami. He currently resides in Cork City where All events are free, thanks to the support of our sponsors. her husband and four young children in the 1867 yellow he writes and is actively working with local environmental groups. Briege Voyle is the daughter of Joan Connolly. The aim of this independent voluntary committee is to fever epidemic in Memphis. Joan was shot dead by the British Army in th honour Cork’s Rebel daughter, Mary Harris, known as Ballymurphy in Belfast on Monday August 9 Lorraine Starsky is a public health nurse Mary became a labour and union activist from the ANNUAL FESTIVAL 1971, the day internment without trial was and a member of the Pennsylvania Nurses Mother Jones. 1890s onwards. She was one of the toughest introduced in Northern . Joan had rushed to Association Local 802. In the 70s she became The Spirit of Mother Jones Festival is a community based organisers for the United Mine Workers of America. to assist 19 year old Noel Phillips who lay wounded. Wednesday Saturday involved in the women’s rights movement, the happening. We seek to hold events which are relevant, She also organised the March of the Mill Children in st rd Briege has campaigned for decades for the full truth Vietnam War, trade union issues and tackling 1903 to highlight the exploitation of young children in 31 July 3 August behind the Ballymurphy Massacre. racism. Lorraine has Irish roots and a special interesting and challenging and active participation is mines and factories. Then known as Mother Jones, she interest in Mother Jones and American labour struggles. encouraged. Enjoy the 2019 festival! Michael Kingston is a respected attended the first meeting of the IWW in 1905 and knew international maritime lawyer from West Cork. James Connolly. His father Tim died in the Whiddy Island Joe Creedon from Inchigeelagh in Uibh Laoire March of the Mill Children Pageant 2019 th th is immersed in local history and heritage issues. He Best known as a hellraiser for her fiery speeches against disaster of January 7 /8 1979 where 50 the exploitation of miners, she was described as “the seafarers and workers died. Michael highlights is organiser of the annual Daniel Corkery Summer at Shandon Plaza School in July each year. An accomplished painter, most dangerous woman in America ”. Mary’s exploits in the ongoing injustice for families of victims by campaigning for the mining wars of West Virginia and Colorado, where improvements in regulations in maritime industries and the a wonderful story teller, he often breaks into song This pageant will be performed on Wednesday 31st July and verse when mere words fail to describe his she was regularly imprisoned, made her a feared and introduction of the legal offence of corporate manslaughter. He ancestors, community and life. at 12:30 p.m. with the assistance of Cork Community admired figure. is Vice President of the French-Irish Association of Relatives and Art Link and Foróige Group Blarney Street to celebrate Friends of the Betelgeuse. the historic March of the Mill Children. Organised by Her cry of “Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the Séan Ó Tuathaigh was born in Sligo. He is Tom MacSweeney worked with The Irish living ” still reverberates through history. Her a Trinity graduate in creative writing. Having Mother Jones, it began on 7th July 1903 from Press/Examiner/Evening Echo/Southern Star and autobiography was published in 1925. She died in 1930 taught English in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2016 he RTE in , Belfast and Cork. He was RTE’s first Philadelphia to New York City and lasted over 3 weeks. and is buried at Mount Olive Union Cemetery in Illinois. moved to the US for 18 months, where he worked Her spirit is alive and well wherever in the world there is regional correspondent and marine correspondent. as a refugee biographer in a resettlement agency. It sought to highlight and to abolish the exploitation of He currently presents This Island Nation maritime a fight for justice. The Cork City Council recognises His experiences there have resulted in his first young children in the mills, mines and factories across st programme on radio, is deputy editor of The August 1 as “Mother Jones Day ”. Mother Jones was book Outlanders – Stories of the Displaced . Sean America. 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Tel: 086 3196063 086 1651356 087 9031282 www.motherjonescork.com Music at the Festival Wednesday 31 st July Thursday 1 st August Friday 2 nd August Saturday 3 rd August Sincere thanks to the following singers and musicians: Cork "Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and "I nursed men back to sanity who "I am not unaware that leaders betray, "I laid out the dead, Singers’ Club , Richard T Cooke , Joan Goggin, down between the endless rows of spindles" were driven to despair" and sell out, and play false" the martyrs of the strike" Eadaoin Delaney, Aoife Delaney , William Hammond , Club Ceoil Ballad Group 10:30 a.m. F A film by Rosemary Feurer The Radical Irish Diaspora 11:00 a.m. L Luke Dineen 10:30 a.m. L Briege Voyle led by Stephen O’Dea and Abbey Ní Loingsigh , Mother Jones: America’s Most “Craftsmen and the Irish Revolution 1920 - 23” “ Ballymurphy August 1971” Jimmy Crowley , John Nyhan, Mick Treacy , Rory F Includes a screening of the Channel 4 Dangerous Woman 11:00 a.m. L Lorraine Starsky Cathedral Visitor Centre McCarthy and Vocalic (Deirdre Moriarty, Norah documentary The Ballymurphy Precedent Cathedral Visitor Centre “In the Footsteps of Mother Jones 1:00 p.m. M Jimmy Crowley Connell and Alf Wade ). Directed by Callum Macrae - The Life and Legacy of Elizabeth Music at the Maldron 11:00 a.m. F Frameworks Films Firkin Crane Theatre Gurley Flynn 1890 - 1964” Mother Jones and Her Children 2:30 p.m. L Dr John Barimo Extra Events Cathedral Visitor Centre 3:00 p.m. L Professor Elliott J Gorn Cathedral Visitor Centre “Social Justice, Inequality and “The Lynching of Emmet Till - A Civil Rights Firkin Crane Theatre - all week 1.00 p.m. M William Hammond Climate Change” 12: 30 a.m. The March of the Mill Children Movement is born!” Women of the Factories by Megan Kennedy Music at the Maldron Cathedral Visitor Centre and Jessica Kennedy Pageant with the assistance of Firkin Crane Theatre Foróige Group Blarney Street and 2.30 p.m. L Dr Kieran Groeger 3:30 p.m. F Remembering the Cork Climate Exhibition of photographs taken 1915 - 1956 documenting 7:30 p.m. M Rory McCarthy Cork Community Art Link "The Extraordinary Life of John Swiney, Change March 2019 Cork female factory workers. Images of Thompsons, Annual toast and songs to Mother Jones Shandon Plaza the United Irishman from Shandon" L Micah Neilson Fridays for Future Cork Sunbeam and other local factories. at the plaque on John Redmond Street Cathedral Visitor Centre Alicia O’Sullivan Ireland's Youth Maldron Hotel - all week 1:30 p.m. Official festival opening by the Ambassador for the Oceans 9:00 p.m. M Vocalic Mother Jones Pictoral Exhibition designed by Jim 5.00 p.m. F The Limerick Soviet Cathedral Visitor Centre Fitzpatrick, was displayed at the first festival in 2012 and Maldron Hotel A collaborative documentary between Celebrate the end of the 2019 festival 5:00 p.m. F Fords – Memories of the Line at many Mother Jones events in America. Thanks to Brian Limerick Council of Trade Unions and Maldron Hotel 3:00 p.m. L Séan Ó Tuathaigh A film documentary produced by the McGee of the Cork City Archives. Frameworks Films “Outlanders: Stories of the Displaced” Ford Ex-workers’ Group 100 th anniversary of The Limerick Soviet and Thursday 1 st August Myo Café , Pope’s Quay 8 p.m. Cathedral Visitor Centre Frameworks Films Maldron Hotel Filí Na Réabhlóide (Poets of the Revolution) Maldron Hotel F Film 7: 00 p.m. L Joe Creedon 7.30 p.m. L Anne Twomey Shandon Area History Group M Music Readings from poets of social change. Tel: 083 0425942 “Ellen Cotter, the mother of Mary Harris, 7:30 p.m. L Michael Kingston Tom MacSweeney “Mary Elmes: An Irish Heroine” & L Lecture/talk/discussion Saturday 3 rd August Maldron Hotel and Inchigeelagh in the early 1800s” “The Whiddy disaster 40 years on: Still 2 p.m. Firkin Crane Theatre Author and journalist Frank Connolly launches his novel Firkin Crane Theatre looking for answers” A Conspiracy of Lies , Mercier Press. 9.30 p.m. M Club Ceoil Ballyphehane Ballad Group Statement by Madame Ginette Ravaleu, Photo by Andy Jay 8:00 p.m. L Professor Elliott J Gorn Evening includes the Song for Mother Jones President of the French-Irish Association of Saturday 3 rd August Maureen’s, John Redmond Author of Mother Jones: The Most Maldron Hotel Relatives and Friends of the Betelgeuse The Cork Mother Jones Committee wish to Street 5.30 p.m . Conal Creedon reads from his new Dangerous Woman in America Firkin Crane Theatre thank our sponsors for 2019 novel Begotten Not Made . “The Story of Mother Jones” Firkin Crane Theatre 9:30 p.m. M John Nyhan Mick Treacy Cork City Council Heritage Dept., SIPTU at Liberty Hall, th & Sunday 4 August Maureen’s , John Redmond Street The songs of Pete Seeger 1919 - 2014 ASTI, ASTI Cork South Paddy Mulcahy Branch, ASTI Carbery 8.30 p.m. In the Round with Stan Notte. Music and 9:30 p.m. M The Cork Singers’ Club Maldron Bar Branch, Cathedral Credit Union, The Communication spoken word. Maldron Hotel Workers’ Union, UNISON, Mandate Trade Union, INTO, NIPSA, Cllr Ted Tynan and CCTU.

The 2019 Spirit of Mother Jones Award We also wish to thank Frameworks Films, Cork Community will be announced at the Festival Art Link, Firkin Crane Theatre, AZ Printers, Cathedral Visitor Centre, Maldron Hotel (Shandon), Shandon Area Renewal All speakers and musicians are committed to Association (SARA), Foróige Group Blarney Street and many attending the festival. The Cork Mother Jones others who have provided assistance on a voluntary Committee reserves the right to vary the schedule. basis.We are indebted to all the speakers, film makers, Follow musicians, singers, poets and volunteers who work together us Check on www.motherjonescork.com to make this a unique, inspirational community event.