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January Days in History
January - you start the year off fine. And in the inaugural month under the Gregorian calendar, there's plenty of history, with the unavoidable temptation to start new things on New Year's Day. January has also been, since 1937, the month…
Was labour hero Jim Larkin a racist?
Big Jim Larkin is usually remembered one dimensionally, as a great trade unionist with a simple message of solidarity, solidarity, solidarity. But Larkin had plenty of ideas on other questions, from nationalism in Ireland to gangsters in…