An historic banner from IMPACT’s Municipal Employees division is among the exhibits in an important display of trade union banners, which opened in the National Museum of Ireland earlier this month.

Created in around 1909, the ‘United Corporation Workmen of Dublin’ union banner was painted over to read ‘Irish Municipal Employees Trade Union’ in 1918. It is the oldest original banner in the exhibition, which includes facsimiles of beautiful union and guild banners from even earlier.

A magnificent contemporary tapestry, which tells the story of the 1913 Dublin lockout in 50 richly embroidered panels, is also on temporary display at the museum’s Collins barracks complex. And the museum is hosting a free morning seminar on the banners and lockout tapestry on Saturday 26^th October.

This month also saw the opening of the museum’s permanent display of artifacts from the lockout period. Its centre piece is the magnificently restored ‘Starry Plough’ flag of James Connolly’s Irish Citizen’s Army, which was raised in O’Connell Street during the 1916 Easter rising.

The temporary exhibition is on display in National Museum, Collins Barracks, Dublin 7 until 14th November 2013. Get details of other 1913 Lockout commemoration events HERE.