{"id":625,"date":"2013-03-19T16:07:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T16:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/warped-decision-to-disallow-1913-lockout-float-at-st-patricks-day-parade-unbelievable-crowe\/"},"modified":"2013-03-19T16:07:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T16:07:01","slug":"warped-decision-to-disallow-1913-lockout-float-at-st-patricks-day-parade-unbelievable-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/warped-decision-to-disallow-1913-lockout-float-at-st-patricks-day-parade-unbelievable-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision to disallow 1913 Lockout float at St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade is unbelievable – Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Decision to disallow 1913 Lockout float at St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade is unbelievable – Crowe<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has said that the decision of the Dublin St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade organisers to ban a trade union float commemorating the 1913 Dublin Lockout, in its Centenary Year, is unbelievable. He has called for an apology to be issued to the people of Dublin, whose ancestors sacrificed so much to improve working conditions in Ireland.<\/p>\n

Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision by the Dublin St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade organisers to ban two concepts for floats commemorating the 1913 Dublin Lockout was unbelievable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two floats were proposed by a Trade Union committee established to mark the anniversary of the 1913 Dublin Lockout and were designed by the street theatre performance company Macnas.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been reported that the floats were barred from the parade because they didn\u2019t fit in with The Gathering theme of this year\u2019s parade. However it seems to me that this warped decision amounts to cultural censorship and the Dublin parade organisers made this decision for political reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot understand how the Dublin parade organisers can argue that a float commemorating a key part of Dublin\u2019s history in its centenary year should not be allowed in the St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the biggest St. Patrick’s Day parade in the country, but essentially it is the Dublin people\u2019s parade and with the parade marching past Jim Larkin\u2019s statue, and other iconic sites, the organisers had a brass neck to disallow a float commemorating this crucial period in Dublin\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to see a thorough review of this decision and a coherent explanation given to why the float ideas were turned down. More importantly there needs to be an apology given to the people of Dublin whose ancestors sacrificed so much for Trade Union recognition, working conditions, and pay in this city.<\/p>\n

“The Dublin St Patrick’s Day was a vibrant, multi-cultural, and positive parade, but this crazy decision casts a dark shadow on the day’s events and left a negative where there should have only been positives.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Decision to disallow 1913 Lockout float at St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade is unbelievable – Crowe Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has said that the decision of the Dublin St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade organisers to ban a trade union float commemorating the 1913 Dublin Lockout, in its Centenary Year, is unbelievable. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}