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Rotten Prod - The Unlikely Career of Dongaree Baird (Paperback)
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James 'Dongaree' Baird, a boilermaker in Harland and Wolff's
shipyard, was one of hundreds of 'rotten Prods', and thousands of
Catholics, driven from their place of work by loyalists in 1920.
The expulsions marked the end of Belfast's 'two red years',
distinguished by the massive engineering strike in 1919 and the
municipal elections in 1920, in which Baird was elected to Belfast
Corporation. Baird's case offers a rare insight into the city's
brief radicalisation, the mentality of Protestant workers who
opposed the partition of Ireland, and the reasons why loyalists
targeted Labour as their most insidious enemy. As a leader of the
expelled workers, Baird spoke to the Irish and British TUCs, but
Irish Labour had no practical policy on the North and British trade
unions feared that confronting loyalists would lose them members.
Subsequently, Baird worked for the National Sailors' and Firemen's
Union and the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, when he
led the farm labourers of Waterford in an epic strike against wage
cuts and was nearly elected to Dail Eireann. In 1927 he and his
family emigrated to Brisbane, Queensland, where his daughters Nora
and Helene were decorated by the Australian government for services
to music in schools. A compelling account of a rotten Prod and a
Labour hero.
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