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1913 Strike and Lockout
- During the period 1870-1914 which was more successful, land agitation or the 1913 Strike and Lockout?
- How effectively did James Larkin seek improvents for workers?
- Socialism was slow to develop in Ireland was never very successful
- The workers lost the battle but it could be argued that they won the war
- Opposition
- Sympathy
- To what extent was the Dublin strike and lockout 1913 a success or failure?
- A dearly bought triumph for William Martin Murphy
- What were the problems facing Ireland's urban poor and what attempts were made to solve them in the period up to 1914?
- Could not afford to rent decent houses
- Decaying tenement houses
- Only 26% of Dublin families had a house all to themselves in the 1880s
- Did not earn enough to buy healthy food
- Suffered from dieseases and malnutrition
- Sewage and water were often close together
- TB, measles and typhoid were common
- Dublin Corporation