‘Unsustainable’ – teacher unions say schools ‘struggling to operate as normal’ amid secretary and caretaker strike action

3-10-1932 In Belfast, thousands of workers, Catholics and Protestants, strike private companies while more than 30,000 demonstrate in the streets against state exploitation of the unemployed. [more]

5-10-1913 The British TUC decided that it will stop sending money to locked-out Dublin workers, although food shipments will continue. [more]

10-10-1910 Huge torchlight march through Dublin to celebrate release of socialist and trade union leader James Larkin from jail. [more]

18-10-1913 Dora Montefiore arrives in Dublin with members of the Domestic Workers Union, offering places with volunteer foster families for the children of strikers. [more]

24-10-1913 Members of the ITGWU clash with the Ancient Order of Hibernians, who are trying to prevent strikers' children being taken to foster families in England and Belfast. [more]