Rotten Prod: The Unlikely Career of Dongaree Baird

by Emmet O'Connor

A compelling account of a twentieth-century Irish labor leader.

In the 1920s, James "Dongaree" Baird worked as a boilermaker in Belfast's Harland and Wolff shipyard, where he was one of the hundreds of Protestants--the so-called "rotten Prods"-- and thousands of Catholics who were forced into unemployment by British loyalists. Emmet O'Connor's Rotten Prod uncovers the story of this quietly influential labor leader who fought...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910820857
• ISBN13: 9781910820858
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: University College Dublin Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"