Robert McElborough was a Belfast trade unionist of little education, who spent most of his life living in the Sandy Row district and working on the tramways and in the gas industry. An active organizer in two loyalist trade unions, he fought proudly -on the workers- side for wages and conditions as a descendant of an Ulster Scot.
This selection from his autobiography provides a unique record of Protestant working-class life, and a trenchant commentary on the mistreatment of workers by their masters. It also chronicles the tension between English union bosses and Ulster...
Robert McElborough was a Belfast trade unionist of little education, who spent most of his life living in the Sandy Row district and working on the tr...
Ireland's part in World War I is now receiving long-overdue acknowledgment. The role of Irish women, however, is less well detailed. The diaries of Emma Duffin -- born in Belfast, educated at Cheltenham Ladies College -- vividly describe her experiences as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse caring for wounded soldiers brought directly from the battlefield. Sent initially to Egypt, where she tended soldiers, many Irish and Australian, invalided from Gallipoli, Duffin served in northern France from immediately prior to the Battle of the Somme to the Armistice in 1918. She had spent a year in...
Ireland's part in World War I is now receiving long-overdue acknowledgment. The role of Irish women, however, is less well detailed. The diaries of Em...