Upcoming Events

Kildare | History and Heritage

no events match your query!

New Events

Kildare

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

The Saker
A bird's eye view of the vineyard

offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
Alternative site: https://thesaker.si/saker-a... Site was created using the downloads provided Regards Herb

offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

offsite link Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
2023/02/27 19:00:02Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of

offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by

The Saker >>

Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

Public Inquiry >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Angela Merkel ?Covered Up Intelligence Report Blaming China for Covid? Thu Mar 13, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
Angela Merkel as German Chancellor covered up an explosive 2020 intelligence report that found a high probability ? 80-95% ? that the?COVID-19 virus came from a laboratory accident in Wuhan, China.
The post Angela Merkel “Covered Up Intelligence Report Blaming China for Covid” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The DOGEing of the Environmental NGOs Can?t Come Soon Enough Thu Mar 13, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
As the receipts from DOGE flood in it's clear that environmental NGOs pushing climate alarmism form a key plank of the bloated administrative state. The axe can't come soon enough, says Tilak Doshi.
The post The DOGEing of the Environmental NGOs Can’t Come Soon Enough appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Thu Mar 13, 2025 01:18 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Australia?s Covid Response Caused Significant Harm, Yet Another Official Report Finds Wed Mar 12, 2025 19:14 | Rebekah Barnett
Yet another report ? this time from the Human Rights Commission ? has found that Australia's Covid response caused significant harm. But there's a blind spot, says Rebekah Barnett: the vaccine mandates get a pass.
The post Australia’s Covid Response Caused Significant Harm, Yet Another Official Report Finds appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Bank of England Scraps Diversity Rules Amid DEI Backlash Wed Mar 12, 2025 17:32 | Will Jones
The Bank of England?has scrapped planned DEI rules that would have forced 42,000 UK businesses to report diversity data collected on their employees amid a global backlash over the?'progressive' corporate agenda.
The post Bank of England Scraps Diversity Rules Amid DEI Backlash appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Kildare - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970

Athy's May Day Festival 2010

category kildare | history and heritage | event notice author Sunday April 11, 2010 09:10author by Re-posted Report this post to the editors

Our inaugural May Day festival in Athy is a celebration of labour. It links the origins of Irish trade unionism to its historic forerunners of land based agitators such as the ‘Ribbon Men’ and the ‘Knights of the Plough’.

This is the first May Day festival in living memory in the welcoming and historic town of Athy, Co. Kildare. It is taking place at a time of great uncertainty within our country and where a biased media whips up anti-trade union sentiment almost on a daily basis.

Our inaugural May Day festival in Athy is a celebration of labour. It links the origins of Irish trade unionism to its historic forerunners of land based agitators such as the ‘Ribbon Men’ and the ‘Knights of the Plough’. The festival is a multi-cultural event and will feature a colourful display of Trade Union Banners and Posters over the last century. There will be a series of papers presented tracing the development of agrarian labour organisations and discussions on two major rural labour disputes in south Kildare in 1922/23 and 1947.

The day will culminate in a music and multi-media performance by Will Kaufman, the famous Woody Guthrie biographer.

The event is being sponsored by the Athy and Kildare/Leixlip Branches of SIPTU. All events during the day are free; there is a small fee for the evening performance by Will Kaufman. Tickets are available from SIPTU for €5. Contact No. 045 432318 (office Hours Monday to Friday) or Adrian Kane on 0876784736.
 
Saturday MAY DAY 2010.
 
Display of Trade Union Banners Posters from.....11am-6pm

Papers and Discussion..... 2.00pm-5.30pm

The Woody Guthrie Story, Tales and Ballads from the Dustbowl....8.30pm
 
2.00- 2.10pm....Opening of Festivities by the Mayor of Athy.

2.10-2.20pm.... An Introduction to May Day by SIPTU’s Kildare Organiser Adrian Kane.

2.20-3.00pm..... ‘The Whitefeet’, a story of a radical movement of miners and farm labourers in the 1820s and 1830s in the midlands by Terry Dunne a graduate of NUI Galway and native of Athy.   

3.00-3.40pm..... The ‘Knights of the Plough’, early farm labourers’ organisations in South Kildare by local historian Frank Taaffe.

3.40-4.00pm ...... Tea/Coffee Break
 
4.00-4.40pm ..... ‘Not Organisable; The Autonomous Worker and The Farm Labourers’ Strike of 1922/23’ by Doctor Noel Kavanagh, Philosophy Lecturer Carlow.

4.40-5.10pm .....The Kilkea lock out of 1947, the struggle for the shorter working week by John McKenna, local novelist and playwright.
 
8.30pm.... Will Kaufman, The Woody Guthrie Story, ‘Tales and Ballads from the Dust Bowl’, an evening of song and celebration of Woody Guthrie’s life.

Please note that all events will take place in the Methodist Hall, Woodstock Street, Athy Co. Kildare on Saturday the 1st of May 2010. Tickets available from SIPTU contact 045 432318 office hours Monday to Friday or Adrian Kane 0876784736.

© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy