September 1913, W.B. Yeats   The State Commemoration of the 1913 Lockout took place in Dublin on August 31 as it was exactly 100 years after police attacked crowds at the start of Ireland’s largest-ever industrial dispute. On that day the Royal Irish Constabulary baton-charged crowds on Sackville Street – now O’Connell Street – in what … Continue reading Down the Decades: Romantic Ireland’s Dead and Gone