‘We’ll give every one of them two or three black eyes’: The East Wall School Boys Strike of 1911

Charleville Mall Library Charleville Mall, North Strand Rd, Dublin 1, Dublin, Ireland

Charleville Mall Library will host a talk by Joe Mooney entitled ‘We’ll give every one of them two black eyes’: The East Wall School Boys Strike of 1911. On 13 September 1911 pupils of the Wharf School in Dublin’s Docklands declared they were on strike! The boys were inspired by what was happening in the area at the time....