Elliott J Gorn teaches history at Loyola Taking Part Message from the Cork 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 Great Famine, 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 Ireland. 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 Dublin, 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. This may be the first re-enactment outside of inducted into the Irish American Hall of Fame in 2014. Marine Times and columnist with The Echo and will tell the incredible human stories of the 6 the USA. A museum has been opened in Mount Olive. 0 Afloat . He challenges State attitudes to Ireland’s maritime sector. refugees he met. www.facebook.com/OutlandersBook 0 0 0 5 4 A plaque by visual artist 1 Frameworks Films is an independent Anne Twomey is a teacher and member of the Cathedral 2 0 Mick Wilkins to Cork based film production company run by Shandon Area History Group. She is a regular Visitor Centre th t commemorate the 175 e n Emma Bowell and Eddie Noonan. Working speaker on local history topics. Her vivid accounts . Cathedral of St. m C anniversary of her birth was o ath Mary & St. Anne c of women from Cork has led to a growing e r d i in collaboration with local communities and ral S t erected in 2012 in Shandon. e @ groups, they seek to tell their stories by recognition of their vital role in the history of Cork. t s S r This festival celebrates the l t R e t The Group’s 2016 exhibition Ordinary Women e o creating film documentaries, some of which have been shown S er m Upp n p i rebel Spirit of Mother Jones r n a a n hn St p in Extraordinary Times has contributed to h Jo o at the Spirit of Mother Jones festival. Documentaries include The z d C S t in the streets of her childhood. a increased interest and research in this subject. n Limerick Soviet , Fords – Memories of the Line and Mother Jones a h and her Children . www.frameworksfilms.com S Shandon Bells & Tower St. Anne’s Church Kieran Groeger is a retired teacher, cyclist Church St A festival and summer school dedicated to the memory Luke Dineen is a regular contributor to the Spirit and avid Francophile. His books include The Trial of Mother Jones Summer School. He has an interest and Execution of James Cotter , The Little Book of Maldron Hotel of Mary Harris/Mother Jones and to inspirational Do in labour issues. He completed his PhD in the School Youghal and now his most recent publication The min ick Joh people everywhere who fight for social justice. St n R of History at UCC. He highlights the vast contribution much-maligned Mary Pike . He writes on local edm The Spirit of Mother Jones Festival ond Cork Mother Jones Committee & Shandon Street Festival of the trade union movement to Irish society and has issues and reveals the truth beneath the layers of Firkin Crane St www.motherjonescork.com published on the history of trade unions. history. 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 Ballyphehane 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.