Redmond played a key role in the Marine Port and General Workers’ Union
Séamus Redmond: an active and influential trade unionist, he was also a keen painter and had a great interest in Irish labour historySéamus Redmond, who was born 100 years ago on February 9th, served in the Army and Marine Service and for a time in the Royal Air Force but he would be remembered mainly as a very active trade unionist. He was also a keen painter and had a great interest in Irish labour history.
Appointed a full-time branch secretary of the MPGWU in 1970, he also became active in the Dublin Trades Council, and from 1973 until his retirement in 1991, he served as general secretary of the MPGWU. “He led the union with conviction and zeal through a troubled period,” according to Angela Murphy, who wrote the entry on him in the Dictionary of Irish Biography.
Redmond led his union back into the ICTU following changes to the latter’s constitution in 1982, Angela Murphy tells us, but it was not until 1988 that he had “mended his fences with other unions” and brought the MPGWU back into congress, according to Padraig Yeates. We saw above that he was a graduate of the NCAD and he always maintained an interest in art, setting up the MPGWU Art Group which held more than 30 exhibitions and which won the coveted Calor Kosangas Arts Award in 1994. Irish labour history was another of his great interests and he spent some time writing a history of his own union which, due to his sudden death, was incomplete.
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