Description
Book Synopsis Revolutionary, unionist and socialist James Connolly is best known for his part in organizing the bloody Easter Rising of 1916. Yet the Rising was just one defining event in a career devoted to peaceful activism for Irish independence, social justice for the working class, and the rights of women. This biography traces the political life of an unassuming advocate for nonviolent social change at the ballot box, who later helped lead a violent insurrection to establish an Irish Republic and was executed by a British firing squad.
Table of Contents
- Preface 1
- 1. The Scavenger's Son 3
- 2. A Fenian Marxist 12
- 3. The Irish Socialist Republican Party 22
- 4. A Socialist in America 41
- 5. Organizer for the Wobblies and the Socialist Party 66
- 6. Preaching Socialism in Belfast, 1910–11 94
- 7. The Irish Labor Wars, 1911–14 109
- 8. Labor and the Partition of Ireland, 1913–14 139
- 9. The Lead-Up to Rebellion 160
- 10. The Easter Rebellion of 1916 and the Irish Republic 164
- Chapter Notes 185
- Bibliography 195
- Index 199
