Description James (Big Jim) Larkin (Irish: Samas Lorcin; 21 January 1875 30 January 1947), an Irish trade union leader and socialist activist, was born to Irish parents in Liverpool, England in 1875. He and his family later moved to a small cottage in Burren, southern County Down. Growing up in poverty, he received little formal education and began working in a variety of jobs while still a child. He became a full-time trade-union organiser in 1905.Larkin moved to Belfast in 1907 and founded the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, the Irish Labour Party, and later the Workers' Union of Ireland. Perhaps best known for his role in the 1913 Dublin Lockout, 'Big Jim' continues to occupy a significant place in the collective memory of Dublin, Ireland.Today a statue of 'Big Jim' stands on O'Connell Street in Dublin. The inscription on the front of the monument is an extract in French, Irish and English from one of his famous speeches: Les grands ne sont grands que parce que nous sommes genoux: Levons-nous. N uasal aon uasal ach sinne bheith seal: irmis. The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.The slogan appeared on the masthead of the Workers' Republic, founded by James Connolly in Dublin in August, 1898. Originally the organ of the Irish Socialist Republican Party, this periodical later became the official organ of the Communist Party of Ireland that was founded in 1921. The original slogan is usually attributed to Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794), the French revolutionary.On the west side of the base of the Larkin monument is a quotation from the poem Jim Larkin by Patrick Kavanagh: And Tyranny trampled them in Dublin's gutter Until Jim Larkin came along and cried The call of Freedom and the call of Pride And Slavery crept to its hands and knees And Nineteen Thirteen cheered from out the utter Degradation of their miseries.On the east side of the monument there is a quotation from Drums unde