| Main Performers | Mr George Lansbury (Presiding),
Mr Ben Tillet,
Miss Delia Larkin,
Mr George Russell,
Mrs Montefiore,
Mr F W Pethick-Lawrence,
James Connolly,
George Bernard Shaw,
C Lapworth,
Henry D Harben,
Robert Williams,
Mrs Charlotte Despard,
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst,
T E Naylor - speakers |
| Orchestra or Band | Irish War Pipers,
Lughaidh Mac an Uasail |
| Conductors | W Brotherton (United Choir) |
| Set List | Organ Recital (Ernest Dale),
'The Heraldite' (Choir),
Selection (The Irish War Pipers)
'Comrades' Song of Hope' (Choir),
Organ Recital (Ernest Dale),
'England Arise' (Audience)
Chairmans Welcome (George Lansbury),
Speeches (Ben Tillet),
Speech (Delia Larkin),
Speech (George Russell ('AE')),
Speech (F W Pethick Lawrence),
Speech (Jason Connolly)
Collection - A Record Collection for Dublin
INTERVAL
Speech (George Bernard Shaw),
Speech (C Lapworth),
Speech (Henry D Harben),
Speech (Robert Williams),
Speech (Mrs Charlotte Despard),
Speech (T E Naylor),
Speech (George Lansbury),
Cinema Scenes of the Rand and Dublin Strikes - Limelight Display of Dyson's Cartoons,
'The March of the Workers',
Three Cheers for Larkin - loud enough to be heard in Mountjoy Gaol |
| Performance Notes | This mass meeting was organised by Ulster Unionist members who were making a tour of the industrial and commerical centres of England to lay the case against Home Rule before the people. The meeting was at the invitation of the Union Defence League and Unionist Association of Ireland.
Sylvia Pankhurst spoke on the platform at this meeting at the Hall, alongside left-wing Independent Labour Party (ILP) representative George Lansbury and James Connolly. Connolly and Larkin campaigned for concrete acts of solidarity by the unions in Britain, as opposed to simply providing money and fine speeches, but their demands were rejected by the social-chauvinist Labour and trade-union leaders in Britain and the Dublin workers were defeated. As a consequence of Sylvia Pankhurst's appearance at this meeting she was immediately summoned to the WSPU headquarters in exile in Paris and told by Cristabel Pankhurst that the East London Federation must become a separate organisation at once.
World premiere of 'The Heraldite' which was specially composed for this event.
A collection, with promises, amounted to over four hundred pounds. (The Observer, 2 November 1913) |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1913/11) |