Irish Bookbinders' and Allied Trades Union

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Irish Bookbinders' and Allied Trades Union
Cumann Ceirde Cluduigte Leabar Agus a Com-Ceard i n-Eirinn
Predecessor National Union of Bookbinders and Machine Rulers
Merged into Irish Print Union
Founded1920
Dissolved1983
Headquarters20 North Frederick Street, Dublin
Location
  • Ireland
Members
1,000 (1950s)
Affiliations Irish Congress of Trade Unions

The Irish Bookbinders' and Allied Trades Union (Irish : Cumann Ceirde Cluduigte Leabar Agus a Com-Ceard i n-Eirinn) was a trade union representing print workers in Ireland.

The union was founded in 1920 as the Irish Bookbinders' and Paper Rulers' Trade Union, by Dublin-based members of the UK-based National Union of Bookbinders and Machine Rulers. It became the "Irish Bookbinders' and Allied Trades Union" in 1938. From 1941, the Irish government required unions to obtain a license, and the National Union thereafter withdrew from Ireland, the Irish Bookbinders thereafter recruiting throughout the country; by the 1950, it had around 1,000 members. [1]

Originally part of the Irish Trades Union Congress, the union was a founding member of the rival Congress of Irish Unions. The two confederations later merged to form the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, of which the union maintained membership. [2]

In 1983, the union merged with the Irish Graphical Society and the Electrotypers' and Stereotypers' Society of Dublin and District to form the Irish Print Union. [1]

General Secretaries

1920: Michael Colgan
1953: Terence Farrell
1960s: J. Cullen

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References

  1. 1 2 Arthur Marsh and John B. Smethurst, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.5, p.85
  2. ↑ Fergus A. D'Arcy and Ken Hannigan, Workers in Union, p.212
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