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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

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      Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/30/2020 12:08:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781476682228, 978-1476682228
      ISBN10: 1476682224

      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

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