File 5 - Liberator and Irish Trade Unionist

Bound volume; Newspaper and printed

'The Liberator' was a weekly newspaper published by Bernard Doyle from offices in Parliament Street, Dublin. The paper espoused opposition to Jim Larkin, the trade union leader during the Dublin Lockout. Each edition featured elaborate and caustic cartoons and editorials invariably attacking Larkin. The file contains a complete bound run of this short-lived journal: 23 Aug. 1913 (Vol. 1. Nos. 1-14). The file also contains 'The Irish Trade Unionist and Labour Year Book, 1913'. Edited by Bernard Doyle, 48 pp.

Over-sized storage

See Pádraig Yeates, 'Lockout, Dublin 1913' (Dublin: Gill & MacMillian, 2000), pp 402-3.

The illustration is taken from the edition of 'The Irish Liberator and Irish Trade Unionist' published on 6 Sept. 1913.