Dublin lock-out

Dublin lock-out
Dublin Metropolitan Police break up a union rally
Date26 August 1913 – 18 January 1914
Location
Caused by
  • Poor working conditions
  • Lack of workers rights
  • Inability to unionise
Goals
  • Improved working conditions
  • Granting of right to unionise
MethodsStrikes, rallies, walkouts
Resulted in
  • Strikers go back to work
  • Many workers sign pledges not to join ITGWU
  • ITGWU badly damaged
  • Principle of unionisation accepted
  • Formation of the Irish Citizen Army
Parties

Workers organizations

Supported by

Lead figures
Number
20,000 workers
300 employers
Casualties and losses
200 policemen injured
2 dead, several hundred injured

The Dublin lock-out was a major industrial dispute between approximately 20,000 workers and 300 employers that took place in Dublin, Ireland. The dispute, lasting from 26 August 1913 to 18 January 1914, is often viewed as the most severe and significant industrial dispute in Irish history. Central to the dispute was the workers' right to unionise.