Word: belfast
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Dublin transport workers' strike. It has marked as important and as definite an epoch in the industrial history of England as did the great dock-workers' strike of the nineties, which heralded the birth of the new unionism. Its effect has been to make Catholics and Ulstermen, in Belfast and Dublin, forget their religious and racial animosities, and join in the struggle for industrial emancipation...