General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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Sam Nolan: tribune of Dublin labour
1930-2024
Sam Nolan
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WITH the death of Sam Nolan on April 14 2024, the Dublin labour movement lost one of most inspiring stalwarts.
Born in 1930, his parents were committed socialists, his carpenter father a union activist and Communist Party of Ireland member.
Young Sam followed his father’s trade and, in 1947, joined the Socialist (later Democratic) Youth Movement and, by 1952, was serving on the executive of the Irish Workers League (IWL).
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