• The Belfast Dock strike or Belfast lockout took place in Belfast, Ireland from 26 April to 28 August 1907. The strike was called by Liverpool-born trade...
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    moved to Belfast in 1907, where he was involved in trade unionism and syndicalist strike action including organising the 1907 Belfast Dock strike. Larkin...
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    Police. During the 1907 Belfast Dock strike which was called by trade union leader Jim Larkin, a portion of the RIC went on strike after Constable William...
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  • reclaimed land, it had a mixed Protestant and Catholic population. The 1907 dock strike called by trade union leader James Larkin commenced in Sailortown before...
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    the YCV had been set up as an organised strike-breaking force, with memories of the 1907 Belfast Dock strike still fresh. The anti-Home Rule Ulster Volunteer...
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    The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace...
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    been paralysed by strikes in 1907 and again in 1919). Until "troubles" returned at the end of the 1960s, it was not uncommon in Belfast for the Ulster Unionist...
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    shoppers, workers, trams, carts, bicycles, and wagons. During the 1907 Belfast Dock strike, Royal Avenue was used as one of the principal thoroughfares for...
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    1907, he was sent to Belfast as a local organiser of the British-based National Union of Dock Labourers (NUDL). In Belfast, Larkin organised a strike...
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    city saw a bitter strike by dock workers organised by radical trade unionist Jim Larkin, in 1907. The dispute saw 10,000 workers on strike and a mutiny by...
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    organised in British-aligned craft unions, Larkin in 1907 had organised dock labourers. A strike, joined by carters, shipyard workers, sailors, firemen...
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  • Des O'Hagan (category Politicians from Belfast)
    McKeown, had been head of the Docker's Union in Belfast, and had participated in the 1907 Belfast Dock strike alongside Jim Larkin. His mother was a devout...
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  • Charles Lanyon (category Architects from Belfast)
    as Belfast's Speaker's Corner. It was here that trade union leader James Larkin addressed crowds of up to 20,000 people during the 1907 Belfast Dock strike...
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    determined unionist membership. He was expelled in 1908. In the great Belfast Dock strike of 1907, the labour leader James Larkin was able to engage the support...
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    in their safety provisions. Titanic and Olympic under construction in Belfast, ca 1910 The Titanic prior to launching, May 31, 1911 Britannic in the...
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    Town Docks. The first was The Dock (1778), (or The Old Dock, known as Queen's Dock after 1855), followed by Humber Dock (1809) and Junction Dock (1829)...
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    Population of Belfast is estimated to be 349,180. 1906 – Belfast City Hall and Victoria Park open. 1907 - The city saw a bitter strike by dock workers organised...
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    Cardiff into action, with the opening of the Roath Dock in 1887, and the Queen Alexandra Dock in 1907. By then, coal exports from the South Wales Coalfield...
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    Titanic (category Ships built in Belfast)
    Line. The ship was built by the Harland and Wolff shipbuilding company in Belfast. Thomas Andrews Jr., the chief naval architect of the shipyard, died in...
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    declined after World War I (1914–1918). Strikes and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused further problems. The docks proved useful during World War II (1939–1945);...
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    number of 914 mm (3 ft) narrow gauge lines. It had its origins in the Belfast and Ballymena Railway which opened to traffic on 11 April 1848. The NCC...
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    The Port of Immingham, also known as Immingham Dock, is a major port on the east coast of England, located on the south bank of the Humber Estuary in the...
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    his family to Belfast where he became involved in trade union and labour politics. In 1907 Johnson helped James Larkin organise a strike in the port, but...
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    RMS Olympic (category Ships built in Belfast)
    War until she hit a mine and sank in the Aegean Sea in 1916. Built in Belfast, Ireland, Olympic was the first of the three Olympic-class ocean liners...
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    SS Traffic (1911) (category Ships built in Belfast)
    Nomadic. She was built for the White Star Line by Harland and Wolff, at Belfast, to serve the Olympic-class ocean liners. In Cherbourg, her role was to...
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    (although they could appeal). The dispute escalated to a London-wide dock strike, spreading to Liverpool, whereupon the Attlee government invoked emergency...
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    in July 2022. Four are preserved as museum ships: HMS Belfast in London, HMS Caroline in Belfast, USS Little Rock in Buffalo, New York, and Mikhail Kutuzov...
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  • suicide, in their Islington home. October–November: Unofficial London dock workers' strike. 5 November: Hither Green rail crash on the Southern Region of British...
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    Order, Sloan supported dock and linen-mill workers, led by the syndicalist James Larkin, in the great Belfast Lockout of 1907.: 101–104  In July 1912...
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  • August: The Savoy Hotel opens. 14 August–15 September: London Dock Strike of 1889: Dockers strike for a minimum wage of sixpence an hour ("The dockers' tanner")...
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