William Martin Murphy

Oktober 2, 2009 at 8:48 am (Uncategorized)

William Martin Murphy lived between 1844 and 1919.
He was an irish nationalist journalist, who founded the ‚Sunday Independent Newspaper‘. During the Dublin Lockout (1913) he was an emloyers‘ leader. But among the workers in Dublin, he was not very  popular, they called him ‚William Murder Murphy‘. As he led employers to demonstrate against the trade unions because he thought tey would destroy his Dublin tram system. The press named him vultur(Aasgeier) or vampire.
Murphy was also a political man. He was member in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the Irish Parliamentary Party representing Dublin from 1885 to 1892.