William Partridge Memorial Lecture in labour history

dublin | history and heritage | event notice Monday June 05, 2006 14:04 by Fionnuala Waldron - Inchicore Village Festival (Community Arts) fjwaldron at gmail dot com

Annual Lecture Series in honour of William Partridge.

‘ “Noël Browne can say what he likes about the Pope”: Labour and Religion in Ireland’ by Dr. Niamh Puirséil. Inchicore Village Festival. Kilmainham Gaol, Tuesday, June 20th at 7.30. For more information contact fjwaldron@gmail.com

The William Partridge Memorial Lecture in labour history was inaugurated in 2000 to commemorate the life of William Partridge. Born in Sligo in 1874, Partridge spent his adult life in Inchicore as an active trade unionist and socialist. He was a founder member of the Irish Labour Party and fought with the Irish Citizen Army during the 1916 Rising. He died in 1917, his early death precipitated by his experience of imprisonment after the Rising. This year's lecture will be given by Dr. Niamh Puirséil.