Áras Uí Chonghaile has a “James Connolly Heritage Trail”, with a series of plaques and panels that interested parties can walk as members of a guided tour, or by themselves with the aid of an app (Android | Apple). One of the stops is in Corporation Street, site of the Belfast offices of the ITGWU from 1911-1941.
The nearby ITGWU board gives Connolly’s report from 1911: “The Branch has rented extensive premises at 122 Corporation Street and intend having a smoking and reading room in connection therewith; we are considering the organisation of a band and have in contemplation also the launching of many other schemes for the moral, social, and financial uplifting of the members. The Irish Transpost and General Workers’ Union is in the vanguard of that Irish branch of the Army of Labour, and we are honoured when we carry its banner.”
It then goes on to describe the arrest of Winnie Carney and the raiding of the Corporation Street offices in 1922.
For the Connolly centre, see previously: Socialism Is Neither Catholic Nor Protestant | Join The Socialists!
For Winnie Carney’s offices, see Naming Our Streets and for a lead post on Carney, see The Typist With The Webley.
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