Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 20 hours ago

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Dublin Council of Trade Unions and SIPTU Dublin District Council virtual May Day event.

Running order:

Welcome by Jack McGinley, Chair SIPTU Dublin District Council (DDC).

Brief greeting from Betty Tyrrell Collard, President Dublin Council of Trade Unions (DCTU), and May Day message from Finn Geaney, Vice-President DCTU.

Memories of campaigns around May Day during my term as
VP and President of DCTU.
Des Derwin, Vice-Chair Dublin District Council

May Day Labour History Publications and Connolly Centenary Launch of Saothar 41. Poem - Paddy Carmody on May Day. Song by Jim Connell ‘An Ownerless Corner of Earth’.
Francis Devine

The Feast of St Joseph the Worker and the DCTU campaign to make May Day a bank holiday. Rendition of Joe Hill.
Eric Fleming

Tolpuddle Martyrs and other songs.
Tony Fitzpatrick

Memories of May Day in Dublin and Ruskin College, England.
Ita Gannon

Ian Bell on James Connolly’s place in Irish & Scottish lore ‘How I learned my relative was Easter Rising leader James Connolly’ (2016).
Scott Millar

May Day in Belfast - solidarity from Dublin.
Mags O’Brien

May Day in the Decade of Revolution.
Padraig Yeates