The Irish Labour History Society (ILHS), with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) and its Northern Ireland Committee, is holding its third international conference in Dublin from 14-17 September 2023. The event will feature national and international experts and labour movement practitioners in over 30 events at four venues.

Titled Visions of Labour and Class in Ireland and Europe, the conference will include 10 plenary sessions, at least 20 ordinary sessions, an oral history presentation and a voice of experience engagement with expert input from Irish, British and European academics, trade unionists, employer representatives, worker educationalists, migrant workers’ representatives, lay activists, and representatives of trades councils from both traditions on the island of Ireland.

Highlights include the 47th Countess Markieviez Lecture (courtesy of the Irish Association of Industrial Relations) and discursive studies on social partnership, the peace process, the Good Friday Agreement and Brexit, and social dialogue. The ILHS’s 50th anniversary book, Labour History in Irish History, edited by John Cunningham, Francis Devine and Sonja Tiernan of Otago University, will be launched at the conference. There will be labour history tours and social events.

More details and booking, including ‘early bird’ bookings (by 31 May).