26 August 1913: Following a lock-out, members of James Larkin's Irish Transport and General Workers' Union employed by the Dublin United Tramways Company begin strike action in defiance of the dismissal of trade union members. During a demonstration in Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street) organised by the union on the 31 August, Dublin Metropolitan Police killed one demonstrator and injured 400 in dispersing a demonstration in Sackville Street (Dublin).

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