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Larkin, James

Born 1876; died Jan. 30, 1947. A figure in the Irish workers’ movement.

In 1909, Larkin was one of the organizers of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union. This union, under Larkin, led a strike of port workers (1911) and the Dublin general strike of 1913. Larkin belonged to the left wing of the Irish Labor Party (founded in 1912). While opposing the opportunist leadership of the party, Larkin at the same time held anarcho-syndicalist views on many issues. From 1914 to 1923 he was in the USA, where in 1919 he was sentenced to five years inprison for taking part in the workers’ movement. In 1923 he was released and deported to Ireland. In 1924 he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain. However, in the late 1920’s he moved away from the revolutionary workers’ movement while continuing to participate in the activities of trade unions. From 1937 to 1947 he was a member of the Irish parliament.

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IN APRIL 2018, federal agents raided the Arizona homes of Michael Lacey and James Larkin, the longtime publishers of an alt-weekly empire and founders of the classified-ads site Backpage.com.

THE BACKPAGE SCANDAL ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK: How indie media entrepreneurs James Larkin and Michael Lacey became the targets of a federal witchhunt

These data show that checkpoint inhibitors can be similarly effective in CNS metastases as they can be in extracranial metastases related to melanoma, Samra Turajlic, MD, PhD, and James Larkin, FRCP, PhD, of the Renal and Skin Units at the Royal Marsden National Health Service Foundation Trust in London, wrote in an accompanying editorial (N Engl J Med.

Nivolumab plus ipilimumab effective in melanoma brain metastases

It was James Larkin who famously said: "The great only appear great because we are on our knees, so let us rise."

Time to take our power back; LETTERS

Detectives are appealing for any witnesses who saw a white Renault Kangoo van registration number 10-D-126064 in or around the area of James Larkin House in north Dublin on the evening of January 30 to come forward.

GOODBYE, BUDA; SLAIN GANGSTER'S FUNERAL; Mourners pay respects as Molyneaux buried amid major security operation

Key to the Molyneaux shooting is the involvement of a woman who gardai suspect summonsed him to James Larkin House on Tuesday, the night of the killing.

GARDAI HUNT 'LONE WOLF' BUDA KILLER; Crazed assassin out for revenge in new wave of gangland shootings; EXCLUSIVE

In the letter to the town hall, James Larkin, Clint Phythian and Hannah Roberts, said: "There seems to us to be an unacceptably high level of pedestrian casualties on what should be a safe place for pedestrians to cross a busy main road.

'Take action on crossing blackspot'

Until now, our relatively limited knowledge of Larkin's life had been informed by Emmet Larkin's James Larkin: Irish Labour Leader 1876-1947 (1965) and by O'Connor's own James Larkin (2002), which was commissioned as a short, synoptic overview.

A giant of a man

Dr James Larkin, consultant medical oncologist at the Royal Marsden Hospital, in London, has treated patients with the drugs as part of another on-going trial.

Skin cancer patients to be first to benefit from drugs combination

Dr James Larkin of London's Royal Marsden Hospital, who is involved in a UK trial of the drugs, said both had helped patients live longer.

Drug mix 'beats skin cancer'

THE James Larkin Society is holding its annual march through Liverpool city centre on July 18.

City march for union man Larkin; NEWS WIRE