Ireland’s Red Troubadour

Created
Fri, 17/11/2023 - 21:19
Updated
Sun, 19/11/2023 - 08:54

Luke Kelly was born in Sheriff Street, one of the best-known thoroughfares of Dublin’s north inner city, in November 1940. For decades the area’s workers had laboured on the nearby docks — providing the backbone, thirty years before, for much of Jim Larkin’s organising efforts. But by the mid-twentieth century, those employment opportunities had begun […]