The innovative Dublin Tenement Experience: Living the Lockout is a performance and interpretation-based exhibition, which takes you back to the Lockout and the tenement conditions of 1913 Dublin. IMPACT, which is supporting the project, is urging members to book now as the event must close at the end of August.

The one-hour programme, which takes place in a former tenement at 14 Henrietta Street in Dublin’s north inner city, includes a 35-minute drama performed by award-winning ANU Productions. Tickets cost just €5.50, with discounts for group bookings.

The event is the first in a series of ICTU-backed activities to mark this year’s centenary of the 1913 Lockout. It is also supported by Dublin City Council and the Irish Heritage Trust.

For further information and ticket sales, visit the Dublin Tenement Experience website.

Originally designed for one family, the large early Georgian house had become a typical Dublin tenement – and home to more than 100 people – by the turn of the last century. Today, it’s like entering a time capsule which transports the 21st century visitor back to 1913.

The ANU production tells the story of the Lockout from the perspective of those who lived through it. Together with archival records, photographs, personal testimonies and the venue itself, the event really brings the history of the tenements to life.

ICTU's Sally Anne Kinahan said: “The marvelous performances capture the heady optimism of the strikers at the beginning of their struggle in August 1913, the desperation of the families as they faced ruin and possible starvation in the run-up to Christmas, and the hard choices that confronted the workers and their families as the Lockout neared its end in early 1914.”

One hundred years after the Lockout, workers in Ireland still have no legal right to negotiate their pay, terms and conditions of employment. Ireland is one of only five EU countries with no legal right to collective bargaining.

The Dublin Tenement Experience is posting regular stories from the archives and updates on Facebook and Twitter.

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