Emmet O'Connor

Rotten Prod by Emmet O'Connor offers a compelling account of a twentieth-century Irish labour 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...