Friday 2nd May 2025 at 8.00pm (please note date change)

Location: Sligo Educational Centre, ATU, Ballinode, F91 WFW9

Moira’s talk  will focus on the social aspects of the revolutionary period and labour mobilization in response to pressing social demands pent up during the wartime period.

Lecturer:

Moira Leydon is a native of Cloughboley, Maugherow. She is currently the Assistant General Secretary with the Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland. After finishing her secondary education in the Ursuline Convent in Sligo, Moira studied sociology and political economy as an undergraduate in UCD, followed by a Master’s Degree in Equality studies (UCD) and a Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Social Policy (Maynooth University). Following the latter, she completed a Level 7 Certificate in Local History in the Maynooth Adult Education Department and her dissertation focused on ‘Communal Life in Maugherow during the Great War’. She has published work on the social aspects of the revolutionary period – 1912 to 1923 – in north Sligo focusing on the mobilization of agricultural labourers in the then powerful ITGWU.

Moira is very involved in current trade union campaigns, including the Irish Congress of Trade Unions’ Global Solidarity and Women’s Committees. She represents the ASTI at several international levels including OECD’s Trade Union Advisory Committee. She is currently vice-President of the Irish Labour History Society, Museum and Archive which was established in 1973 to promote the history of Irish labour and Irish people in labour history.

She lives in Trim, Co. Meath and is active at local level as chairperson of the Gaelscoil and the Meath Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign.