19 Facts About Richard O'Carroll

Richard O'Carroll was an Irish trade union leader, military officer, politician and founding member of the Irish Labour Party.

Richard O'Carroll was an early critic of child labour, particularly in the construction industry, and under his leadership the construction industry took a public stance against child labour for the first time.

Lieutenant Councillor O'Carroll was a bricklayer by trade and General Secretary of the Ancient Guild of Incorporated Brick and Stonelayers Trade Union from 1906 until his death in 1916.

In 1907 Richard O'Carroll was elected to Dublin City Council as an Independent Councillor.

Richard O'Carroll's role was likely a politically complex and delicate one, as he was now both a Trade Union leader and politician, meaning he represented both the workers of an industry and the people of a city simultaneously.

Richard O'Carroll became a Poor Law Guardian on the South Dublin Poor Law Union Board.

Richard O'Carroll tabled a motion to the Board proposing that no Dublin City Council contracts be awarded to contractors who used child labour.

Richard O'Carroll succeeded James Larkin as representative of the Dublin Labour Party on Dublin City Council.

Richard O'Carroll continued in this role into 1913 and the period of tremendous industrial unrest during the Dublin lock-out.

Richard O'Carroll was a member of the conciliation board which played a key role in ending the lock-out, while providing public support for the disenfranchised labourers who had been denied the right to unionise: a week after Bloody Sunday in 1913, during which he had been badly beaten by police at a banned Trade Union meeting, Cllr.

Richard O'Carroll addressed a large crowd at Nelson's Pillar along with Larkin and other key leaders, urging the public to vote for Labour representation to improve the civil rights of workers.

Richard O'Carroll was re-elected to Dublin City Council on the Dublin Labour Party ticket again in 1915.

Richard O'Carroll was a member of the revolutionary Nationalist group Irish Republican Brotherhood as well as the Irish Volunteers.

Richard O'Carroll participated in the Easter Rising of 1916, fighting in the Camden Street area as a lieutenant of 2nd Battalion under the command of Thomas MacDonagh.

Lieutenant Councillor Richard O'Carroll was the only serving and elected politician to be killed during the Easter Rising.

Richard O'Carroll was found, staked out in a room above Byrne's grocery shop.

Colthurst obviously knew that the shooting of Richard O'Carroll had been illegal and he was now looking for an excuse to justify it.

Richard O'Carroll was buried at Glasnevin cemetery, alongside many of Ireland's nationalist leaders.

Richard O'Carroll by assisting young people in continuing their education with a bursary.