Fórsa members can avail of tickets for the upcoming Irish Labour History Society Conference in September. But numbers are limited and on a first come first serve basis.

The Irish Labour History Society will be holding a major four day ‘Visions of Labour and Class in Ireland and Europe’ Conference taking place across a number of venues from 14th to 17th September 2023.

The Irish Labour History Society (ILHS) was established in 1973, with a founding objective, as outlined in our constitution, to; ‘promote the knowledge of Irish labour and of Irish people in labour history abroad and labour history in general; the appreciation of the importance of labour history in the educational curriculum; and the preservation of all records and reminiscences, oral and written, relating to the current and past experiences of the Irish working class and its organisations’.

The Society is today a registered charity, with a premises in Beggars Bush, Dublin that includes an extensive collection of Irish labour history records. The collections are open to researchers Monday-Friday, by prior appointment.

The Society also regularly publishes other items of relevance to the history of Irish workers, their leaders and organisations.

The conference is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries 2012-23 initiative.

The full programme for the conference is available to view here.

If you wish to attend an event on the programme you must request to be nominated to attend for the event. All you have to do is e-mail us at ilhsconference@forsa.ie.

Your request will be sent to the ILHS and a confirmation will be sent to you so you can turn up and enjoy the event. Your request must match an event on the programme.

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