Remembering the Dublin Lockout
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/08/dublin-lockout-1913-bloody-sunday-james-larkin
This essay delves into the events that occurred in Dublin in 1913, the occasion on which Yeats wrote his poem. Writer Donal Fallon describes the labor dispute between the city's employees and employers, in which employers locked down workplaces as a tactic to avert unionization.
