Follow us on facebook & twitter First two weeks in April - follow ongoing conversations between Rashers and Fr. O’Connor on Twitter @RashersTierney1 @FrOConnor1 Programme 2013 (continued) Saturday 27th April 11am-4:30pm Tenement Tours Strumpet City: A People’s History of the Tour of former tenement house No. 14 1913 Lockout. A day of papers; documentary Henrietta Street. screening and History Ireland Hedge School Wednesday 10th, 17th and 24th April debate org by Garrett Fagan (UCD). from 12:30 - 2pm. Numbers limited. Booking Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 essential. Email: [email protected] Tel: ABOUT ABOUT LORD MAYOR’S DUBLIN: ONE Pearse Street. Admission free. Booking 01 222 3824 essential. Email: [email protected] Tel: 01 6744862 Walking Tours THE BOOK THE author message CITY, ONE BOOK Monday 29th April 6:30pm Glasnevin Cemetery will commemorate the Centring on the seminal lockout James Plunkett Kelly was born This year’s choice of Strumpet City for Dublin: One City, One Book is centenary of events that inspired Strumpet City, of 20,000 workers in Dublin in in Sandymount in Dublin in 1920 Dublin: One City One Book is entirely an award-winning Dublin City Dramatic readings from Strumpet City. Be with a tour each Sunday in April. Amongst the entertained as actor Fergus Cronin & historian graves visited are Countess Markievicz, the 1913, Strumpet City encompasses and was educated by the Christian appropriate as we commemorate Council initiative, led by Dublin Catriona Crowe evoke the atmosphere of the world’s first female minister, Helena Maloney, a wide sweep of city life. Brothers at Synge Street. He began the centenary of the Great Lockout City Libraries which encourages time and provide historical context through founding member of the Irish Women Workers writing short stories as James of 1913, one of the most important everyone to read a book connected reading, recorded music and imagery. Union, Sean Connolly, the first casualty of the James Plunkett commented that the Phibsboro Library, Blacquiere Bridge, Easter Rising, and Charlotte Despard, sister Plunkett in the 1940s, many of events in Dublin’s history. with the capital city during the novel ‘is a picture of Dublin in the Off North Circular Road, Phibsboro. of Lord French, and revolutionary socialist which were published in The Bell. month of April every year. Enjoy Admission free. Booking essential. Email: agitator. The tour ends at the grave of James seven years 1907 to 1914. Against James Plunkett’s masterpiece, set JAMES PLUNKETT [email protected] Tel: 01 8304341 reading Strumpet City and Larkin where actor Jer O’Leary will perform the backdrop of social agitation, it is First published in 1969 while Plunkett against the backdrop of the lockout Larkin’s famous speech. experience some of the wide variety Tuesday 30th April 1:10-1:50pm th th st th about the attitudes of various strata was working as a producer at Radio of workers in 1913, highlights the Sunday 7 , 14 , 21 and 28 April 1pm. of events taking place. Janey Mary, a short story by James Plunkett Tickets €12/ €8 concession. Booking advisable. of society—from Dublin Castle Telefís Éireann, Strumpet City is sharp contrasts of life in Dublin in read by actor Bryan Murray. Email: [email protected] Tel: 01 882 Council Chamber, City Hall, Dame Street. 6550 and people of property down to the acknowledged as his masterpiece. the early 20th century. Its characters, Thanks to our partners Gill Admission free. Booking not necessary. Info destitute poor and the outcasts. It was later made into a popular including the musical tramp Rashers & Macmillan, the 1913 email: [email protected] Exhibitions Joyce wrote about the moderately television series starring Peter Tierney and ‘whiskey-priest’ Father Commemoration Committee, Tuesday 30th April 6:30pm Dublin City Library & Archive, middle class, and O’Casey about the O’Toole, Bryan Murray, Donal McCann, Giffley, have become iconic figures in Dublin CityBIDs as well as Fáilte 138-144 Pearse Street Dramatic readings from Strumpet City. Be slums of the period. I was concerned Cyril Cusack and David Kelly. Ireland’s literary landscape. Ireland and especially to all the entertained as actor Fergus Cronin & historian ‘Infernos of Degradation’: Dublin 1913. with finding a form in which all the organisations, venues, speakers Catriona Crowe evoke the atmosphere of the Images of Dublin in 1913 - the slums, Plunkett drew on his city centre As well as being arguably the time and provide historical context through tenements, and rookeries of the city. This elements could fit.’ and performers involved in this exhibition highlights the everyday privations working-class background as well greatest Irish historical novel, it reading, recorded music and imagery. year’s programme. Pembroke Library, Anglesea Road, and hardships endured by Dublin’s poor in the From the destitution of Rashers as his experience in the labour provides a literary portal through ‘Strumpet City’. Ballsbridge. Admission free. Booking essential. which Dubliners can explore the Email: [email protected] Tel: 01 Strumpet City - exhibition matching Tierney to the solid, aspirant movement as inspiration for the Borrow Strumpet City from 6689575 quotations from James Plunkett’s Strumpet respectability of Fitz and Mary, the book. While working as a clerk in history of their city. It is a novel any branch of Dublin City, Dún City with images from the Dublin City Council priestly life of Father O’Connor, and the Gas Company, he became active which will undoubtedly raise many Laoghaire - Rathdown Libraries or Tuesday 30th April 7:30pm Photographic Collection showing how little the city had changed over many decades the upper-class world of Yearling and in the Workers’ Union of Ireland. In discussions and I encourage you buy it from your favourite bookshop. Poems and the City: ‘September 1913’ and beyond with Prof Gerry Dawe (TCD). 2nd – 30th April Mon-Thurs: 10am-8pm. Fri & the Bradshaws, it paints a portrait 1946 he became branch and staff to participate in those discussions Sat: 10am-5pm. Admission free. Assembly Hall, County Hall, Dún of a city of stark contrasts, with an secretary and worked under Jim throughout the extensive One City Laoghaire. Admission free. Booking essential. urban working class mired in vicious Larkin until Larkin’s death in 1947. One Book programme this April. Dublin: Email: [email protected] Tel: 01 2147970 Competition James Plunkett Short Story Award for poverty. emerging writers. Prize fund €3,500. Full details Plunkett also wrote three radio ONE CITY, Bike Tours on www.ireland-writers.com Strumpet City is the great, sweeping plays, including Big Jim, also set Dublin City Bike Tours Irish historical novel of the 20th in the 1913 Lockout in Dublin. It ONE BOOK Explore James Plunkett’s Strumpet City. Meet www.dublinonecityonebook.ie outside Isaac’s Hostel, Frenchman’s Lane, off century. provided the basis of the stage play Lower Gardiner Street. The Risen People, produced by the www.dublinonecityonebook.ie Each Friday in April 10am, duration Abbey Theatre in 1958. brought to you by Dublin City Council 2.5 hours. Fee €24. Booking www. dublincitybiketours.com Tel: 087 1341866 He died in 2003.

Strumpet DL.indd 1 27/02/2013 13:00 ‘Many studies have been written about the quest for the great American novel. Anyone seeking its Irish equivalent need search no further.’ Programme 2013 Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times.

Monday 1st April 7:30pm Wednesday 3rd April 7:30pm Stephen Holland, Blackthorn Arts. Suitable time and provide historical context through Sunday 14th April 7pm The Church Café & Bar, junction of Mary Friday 19th April 1pm The Church Café & Bar, junction of for children 4 - 12 years of age, parental reading, recorded music and imagery. Street & Jervis Street. Admission free. Booking Mary Street & Jervis Street. Admission free. Irish Traditional Music with readings from Bread and Roses: Strumpet City Revisited. Strumpet City – Extracts, Banners, Ballads Big Jim & Jimmy’s Novel: The story behind supervision essential. not necessary Booking not necessary Strumpet City. Broadcaster Sean Rocks, writers Christine Ringsend Library, Fitzwilliam Street. and Banter. Balladeers Jimmy Kelly, Fergus Strumpet City with James Curry. City Hall, Dame Street. Admission free. Admission free. Booking essential. Email: Wednesday 17th April 6:30pm The Church Café & Bar, junction of Mary Dwyer Hickey, Diarmuid Ferriter and Peter Whelan and Fergus Russell sing rousing The Church Café & Bar, junction of Wednesday 24th April 3pm Sheridan discuss the importance of Strumpet Booking essential. Email: cityofliterature@ [email protected] Tel: 01 6680063 ballads of the time. Mick O’Reilly, President Dramatic readings from Strumpet City. Street & Jervis Street. Admission free. Mary Street & Jervis Street. Admission free. The Dublin Lockout Cartoons of Ernest City – the book. Readings by Bryan Murray dublincity.ie Tel: 01 6744877 / 6744862 of DCTU, and Jer O’Leary, actor and banner Be entertained as actor Fergus Cronin & Booking not necessary Wednesday 10th April 7:30pm Booking not necessary Kavanagh with James Curry. (Fitz in the TV series), theme music from the Monday 8th April 2:30pm maker, discuss Larkin, then and now. Extracts historian Paul Rouse evoke the atmosphere Tuesday 2nd April 10:30am TV series played by the RIAM orchestra and Irish Traditional Music with readings from read by drama students, Marino College. of the time and provide historical context Monday 22nd April 12pm The Church Café & Bar, junction of Dublin at the Time of James Plunkett’s conducted by the composer Proinnsias O Duinn. ‘Infernos of Degradation’: Life in the Dublin Strumpet City. Sean O’Casey Theatre, East Wall. through reading, recorded music and imagery. (duration approx 90 minutes) Mary Street & Jervis Street. Admission free. Slums with Dr. Enda Leaney, Dublin City The Church Café & Bar, junction of Mary Booking not necessary Strumpet City with Dr. Paul Rouse (UCD). St. Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle, Dame Admission €10. Booking essential. Email: Coolock Library, Barryscourt Road. Let’s Walk & Talk: Memories of Strumpet Public Libraries Street & Jervis Street. Admission free. Booking National Gallery of Ireland, Clare Street. Street, (Cork Hill Gate entrance, beside City [email protected] Admission free. Booking essential. Email: City. Walk through parts of the city still Ballymun Library, Ballymun Road. not necessary Wednesday 24th April 6:30pm Admission free. Booking not necessary Hall). Admission free. Booking essential. Limit Monday 15th April 7:30pm [email protected] Tel: 01 8477781 awash with memories of more desperate Admission free. Booking essential. Email: Strumpet City – the TV series. Bryan of 4 tickets per person. Email: cityofliterature@ times before ending at The Church Café & [email protected] Tel: 01 8421890 Wednesday 10th April 7:30pm Irish Traditional Music with readings from Murray (Fitz), John Kelleher (executive Tuesday 2nd April 1:10-1:50pm dublincity.ie Tel: 01 6744862 Wednesday 17th April 7pm Bar, Mary Street for complimentary tea & Strumpet City. producer) and Tony Barry (producer) tell Who Feared to Wear the Red Hand Badge: Rashers, Royalty and Revolution: Kingstown/ Two Faces of a Winding Clock – Moore Street coffee and an Irish music session. Special Thursday 4th April 11am Monday 8th April 7:30pm th The Church Café & Bar, junction of Mary the story of the making of the iconic TV Songs and Poems of 1913 Lockout. Performed Dún Laoghaire in the Early 20 Century and the Dublin of Strumpet City, a discussion lunch offer available. Led by historian Street & Jervis Street. Admission free. Booking series. Other cast and crew members will with historical commentary by Francis Devine Life in Dublin’s Tenements – Irish History Live, Irish Traditional Music with readings from with Colin Scudds, Dún Laoghaire Borough on Dublin markets with Barry Kennerk. Pat Liddy. Strumpet City. Historical Society. not necessary be in the audience. with guest singers. a show for children aged 8+. National Library of Ireland, Kildare Meet outside St. Kevin’s Church, junction of Mary Dún National Library of Ireland, Kildare Council Chamber, City Hall, Dame Street. Finglas Library, Main Shopping Centre, The Church Café & Bar, Assembly Hall, County Hall, Monday 15th April until Saturday Street. Admission free. Booking not necessary Harrington Street. Admission free. Booking Street & Jervis Street. Admission free. Booking Laoghaire. Admission free. Booking essential. Street. Admission free. Booking not Admission free. Booking not necessary. Info Jamestown Road, Finglas. Admission free. not necessary. www.letswalkandtalk.ie not necessary Email: [email protected] Tel: 01 2147970 20th April 7:30pm necessary email: [email protected] Booking essential. Email: finglaslibrary@ Wednesday 17th April 7pm dublincity.ie Tel: 01 8344906 Lockout - a new play from writer Ann (duration approx 90 minutes) Monday 22nd April 7:30pm Tuesday 9th April 1:10-1:50pm Thursday 11th April 6pm Matthews. Hear the story of Dublin working Wednesday 24th April 7:30pm Tuesday 2nd April 7:30pm Irish Traditional Music with readings from Thursday 4th April 1pm class wives and mothers during the Lockout. Let’s Walk & Talk: Strumpet City & the Lockout Irish Traditional Music with readings from Irish Traditional Music with readings from Conradh na Gaeilge san Ardchathair i 1913: The Dublin Lockout Cartoons of Ernest around the North Inner City. This walking tour Strumpet City. Fiche Bliain Ag Fás? Trácht as Gaeilge: beidh Kavanagh with James Curry. The New Theatre, 43 East Essex Street. Strumpet City. Strumpet City. Life in Dublin’s Tenements – Irish History Live, around the North Strand area will examine the The Church Café & Bar, junction of aistriuchán as Béarla le fáil leis an doctúir Tickets €15/€12 concession/€10 group The Church Café & Bar, junction of The Church Café & Bar, junction of Mary a show for children aged 8+. The Church Café & Bar, junction of Mary events leading to the Great Lockout of 1913 Mary Street & Jervis Street. Admission free. Séamus Ó Maitiú. Street & Jervis Street. Admission free. Booking rate. Booking: 01 670 3361 Email: info@ Mary Street & Jervis Street. Admission free. Street & Jervis Street. Admission free. Booking Drumcondra Library, Millmount Avenue, and the devastating effect it had on the area. Booking not necessary , Dame Street. not necessary thenewtheatre.com Booking not necessary not necessary Drumcondra. Admission free. Booking essential. Council Chamber, City Hall Led by historian Pat Liddy. Email: [email protected] Admission free. Booking not necessary. Info Meet at the Five Lamps, North Strand. Tuesday 23rd April1:10-1:50pm email: [email protected] Friday 12th April 1pm Tuesday 16th April 1:10-1:50pm Thursday 25th April 6:30pm Wednesday 3rd April 11am Tel: 01 8377206 Admission free. Booking not necessary. The 1913 Lockout – a Spiritual Revolution. The 1913 Tapestry: the Story in Art. Video An Evening with Rashers Tierney – Life in Dublin’s Tenements – Irish History Live, Stories, Songs, Speeches which Inspired www.letswalkandtalk.ie Reflections with Des Geraghty. Thursday 4th April 3pm Tuesday 9th April 6:30pm Strumpet City with historian Padraig Yeates, followed by short talks by artists Robert readings and songs from James Plunkett’s a show for children aged 8+. Dame Dramatic readings from Strumpet City. actor Jer O’Leary and Fergus Whelan (ICTU). Ballagh and Cathy Henderson. Wednesday 17th April 7:30pm Council Chamber, City Hall, Strumpet City. The classic novel of Dublin Pembroke Library, Anglesea Road, Life in Dublin’s Tenements – Irish History Live, Street. Admission free. Booking not Be entertained as actor Fergus Cronin junction of Mary Council Chamber, City Hall, Dame Street. city life in the early 1900’s through the Ballsbridge. Admission free. Booking essential. a show for children aged 8+. The Church Café & Bar, Irish Traditional Music with readings from necessary. Info email: cityarchives@ & historian Catriona Crowe evoke the Street & Jervis Street. Admission free. Booking Admission free. Booking not necessary. Info words of irrepressible Rashers Tierney. Email: [email protected] Tel: 01 Donaghmede Library, Donaghmede Strumpet City. dublincity.ie atmosphere of the time and provide historical not necessary email: [email protected] Waterways Ireland Visitors Centre, 6689575 Shopping Centre, Grange Road. Admission free. junction of Mary context through reading, recorded music and The Church Café & Bar, Grand Canal Quay. Admission free. Booking essential. Email: donaghmedelibrary@ Street & Jervis Street. Admission free. Booking Tuesday 23rd April 6:30pm imagery. Saturday 13th April 10am - 4:30pm Tuesday 16th April 6:30pm Booking advisable. Email: Visitorcentre@ Wednesday 3rd April 1pm dublincity.ie Tel: 01 8482833 not necessary Dramatic readings from Strumpet City. Be Rathmines Library, 157 Lwr Rathmines Dramatic readings from Strumpet City. waterwaysireland.org Tel: 01 6777510 Life in Dublin’s Tenements – Irish History Live, A Capital in Conflict: Dublin City and the entertained as actor Fergus Cronin & historian Thursday 4th April 4:30pm Road. Admission free. Booking essential. Email: Be entertained as actor Fergus Cronin & a show for children aged 8+. 1913 Lockout. Seminar associated with Thursday 18th April 6pm Paul Rouse evoke the atmosphere of the [email protected] Tel: 01 4973539 historian Paul Rouse evoke the atmosphere Thursday 25th April 6:30pm Dramatic readings from Strumpet City. Be the launch of the book of the same title. time and provide historical context through Rathmines Library, 157 Lwr Rathmines of the time and provide historical context Dramatic readings from Strumpet City. Dramatic readings from Strumpet City. entertained as actor Fergus Cronin & historian Speakers: Francis Devine, Karen Hunt, Ann Be entertained as actor Fergus Cronin & reading, recorded music and imagery. Road. Admission free. Booking essential. Email: Tuesday 9th April 7:30pm Matthews, Niamh Puirséil and Colin Whiston. through reading, recorded music and imagery. Be entertained as actor Fergus Cronin [email protected] Tel: 01 4973539 Catriona Crowe evoke the atmosphere of the historian Paul Rouse evoke the atmosphere Drumcondra Library, Millmount Avenue, Irish Traditional Music with readings from Guest speaker Padraig Yeates Cabra Library, Navan Road. Admission & historian Catriona Crowe evoke the time and provide historical context through of the time and provide historical context Drumcondra. Admission free. Booking Strumpet City. free. Booking essential. Email: cabralibrary@ atmosphere of the time and provide Wednesday 3rd April 3pm reading, recorded music and imagery. Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 through reading, recorded music and imagery. essential. Email: drumcondralibrary@ The Church Café & Bar, junction of Mary Pearse Street. Admission free. Booking not dublincity.ie Tel: 01 8691414 historical context through reading, Life in Dublin’s Tenements – Irish History Live, The Bailey Bar, 1-4 Duke Street. Admission The Church Café & Bar, junction of Mary dublincity.ie Tel: 01 8377206 Street & Jervis Street. Admission free. Booking necessary. Info email: dublinpubliclibraries@ recorded music and imagery. a show for children aged 8+. free. Booking not necessary Street & Jervis Street. Admission free. Booking not necessary dublincity.ie Tel: 6744999 Tuesday 16th April 7:30pm Raheny Library, Howth Road. not necessary Tuesday 23rd April 7:30pm Walkinstown Library, Percy French Road. From Mrs Bradshaw to Rashers Tierney: Admission free. Booking essential. Email: Friday 5th April 11:30am The Catholic Church and the 1913 Lockout Admission free. Booking essential. Email: Wednesday 10th April 7:30pm Sunday 14th April 2-5pm Gender, Poverty and Power in Dublin in the [email protected] Tel: 01 8315521 Big Jim & Jimmy’s Novel: The story behind Thursday 18th April 6pm as illustrated in Strumpet City with Patsy [email protected] Tel: 01 Early 20th Century with Dr Caitriona Clear Strumpet City with James Curry. Reading of the first finalists in the James Strumpet City at the National Print Museum. How the Poor Lived: Tenements, Public Health McGarry of The Irish Times. Thursday 25th April 8pm 4558159 Plunkett Short Story Award for new and Print your own keepsake, listen to a performed (NUI Galway). The Church Café & Bar, junction of Mary and Medicine in Lockout Dublin 1913 with Assembly Hall, County Hall, Dún emerging writing talent. reading and drink tea from a jam jar or fine Assembly Hall, County Hall, Dún Readings from Strumpet City with Wednesday 3rd April 7:30pm Street & Jervis Street. Admission free. Booking Lydia Carroll and David Durnin. Laoghaire. Admission free. Booking Irish Writers Centre, 19 Parnell Square. bone china, with artist and letterpress printer Laoghaire. Admission free. Booking essential. accompanying Dublin songs performed by Irish Traditional Music with readings from not necessary Royal College of Physicians, Kildare essential. Email: [email protected] Admission free. Booking not necessary Mary Plunkett. Email: [email protected] Tel: 01 2147970 singer Barry Gleeson. Strumpet City. Street. Admission free. Booking essential. Tel: 01 2147970 National Print Museum, Garrison Chapel, RATHFARNHAM CASTLE, Rathfarnham Saturday 6th April 12-1pm Email: [email protected] Tel: The Church Café & Bar, junction of Mary Wednesday 10th April 7:30pm Beggar’s Bush Barracks, Haddington Road. Tuesday 16th April 7:30pm Road. Admission free. Booking advisable. & 1:30-2:30pm 01 6744806 Tuesday 23rd April 7:30pm Street & Jervis Street. Admission free. Booking Admission free. Booking not necessary Irish Traditional Music with readings from Boys and Girls Come Out to Play! Traditional Dramatic readings from Strumpet City. Be Irish Traditional Music with readings from Email: [email protected] Tel: 01 not necessary Strumpet City. games and rhymes from the 20th century with entertained as actor Fergus Cronin & historian Strumpet City. 4939462 Catriona Crowe evoke the atmosphere of the

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