The Irish Transport and General Workers Union was founded by James Larkin as a general trade union (in line with the policy of the Industrial Workers of the World). Statue of James Larkin on OConnell Street James (Big Jim) Larkin (1874-1947), an Irish trade union leader and socialist activist was born in Liverpool, England on 28 January 1874, of Irish parents. ... The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It contends that all workers should be united within a single union as a class and the profit system abolished. ...

The ITGWU was at the centre of the Dublin Lockout and the events left a lasting impression on the ITGWU and hence on the Irish Labour Movement - with the ITGWU closer to republicanism, generally in the form of Fianna Fáil, than the movement's own Labour Party and imbued by anti-communism. Statue of James Larkin on OConnell Street (Oisín Kelly 1977) The Dublin Lockout of 1913 was the most severe industrial dispute in the history of Ireland, a general lockout of workers in Dublin, meant to contain the expansion of trade unions. ... The labor movement (or labour movement) is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and political governments. ... Irish Republicanism is the nationalist belief that all of Ireland should be a united independent republic. ... Fianna Fáil - The Republican Party (IPA ; English translation: Soldiers of Destiny) is the largest political party in Ireland. ... The Labour Party (Irish: Páirti an Lucht Oibre) is the third largest political party in the Republic of Ireland. ... Anti-communism is opposition to communist ideology, organization, or government, on either a theoretical or practical level. ...

The ITGWU merged into SIPTU. SIPTU (Services, Industrial, Professional, and Technical Union) is Irelands largest trade union. ...

The ITGWU should not be confused with the British-based Transport and General Workers Union which also organises in Ireland and is (still) referred to as the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union (ATGWU) to avoid confusion. The Transport and General Workers Union, also known as the TGWU and the T&G, is one of the largest general trade union in the United Kingdom, with 900,000 members. ...