• Mikron Theatre 'Can you keep a secret?'
• Woody Guthrie: hard times and hard travellin'
• Clarion Cycling Club and family cycle rides
• International Women's Day 2012
• Annual Frow lecture
• Living Newspapers
• The Bailey Sisters - 'An alternative Christmas concert'
• The Clarion - a paper, a movement, a way of life
• Eleanor Rathbone - the polite revolutionary
• The News International dispute - 25 years on

North West Labour History Group lecture at the Library, 2pm

There will be two speakers.

Sonja Tiernan will speak about Eva Gore-Booth. Born in Sligo into the Anglo-Irish gentry, Eva came to to Manchester in 1896 to help organise working women into trade unions. In 1904 she and other women established the Manchester and Salford Women's Trades and Labour Council. She also campaigned for the vote for working women. Eva was a poet and playwright, part of the Irish literary renaissance.

Sonja teaches at Trinity College, Dublin and is an Executive Committee Member, Women's History Association of Ireland; Editorial Board Member, Irish Journal of Feminist Studies; and associate member of the Irish Historical Society.
Her study of Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926) will published by Manchester University Press in 2010.

Francis Devine from the Irish Labour History Society will give a talk on ‘Larkin's unions: a centenary of the Irish Transport & General Workers Union and Workers' Union of Ireland, and its north west connections'.

Francis is the author of Organising History: a Centenary of SIPTU, 1909 - 2009 (Gill & Macmillan, 2009). Francis was the editor of Saothar, Journal of the Irish Labour History Society for many years and is currently working on a history of the Communications Workers' Union.

Admission free; meeting collection