Author: James ConnollyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Labour in Irish History
Author: James ConnollyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
James Connolly and the Reconquest of Ireland
Author: Priscilla MetscherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Songs of Freedom
Author: James ConnollyPublisher: Pm Press
ISBN: 9781604868265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Songs of Freedom is the name of the 1907 songbook edited by the Irish revolutionary socialist James Connolly. For the first time in nearly 100 years, readers will find all of his original songs. Both are reproduced exactly as they originally appeared, providing a fascinating glimpse of the workers' struggle in the early 1900s. To complete the picture, the book includes the James Connolly Songbook of 1972, which contains the most complete selection of Connolly's lyrics and historical background essential to understanding the context in which the songs were written.
The Life and Times of James Connolly
Author: Charles Desmond GreavesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Politics of James Connolly
Author: Kieran AllenPublisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN: 9780745304731
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Born in 1868 and executed by the British in 1916 for his role in the Easter Rising, the work of Irish national hero James Connolly has long been misunderstood. From Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin, to conservative Irish nationalists and the Church, many groups have claimed Connolly as their own, his ideas and strategies used and distorted to justify particular political positions.Kieran Allen breaks this mould, assessing the founder of the Irish Marxist movement ideas from a revolutionary socialist perspective. Allen considers the strengths and weaknesses of Connolly's revolutionary strategy, the effect of his commitment to international socialism on his nationalist loyalties and arguing that, ultimately, Connolly's enduring relevance derives from his anti-imperialism. Any socialist movement today ignores this book at its peril.
The ‘Labour Hercules’: The Irish Citizen Army and Irish Republicanism, 1913–23
Author: Jeffrey LeddinPublisher: Merrion Press
ISBN: 1788550765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Irish Citizen Army (ICA) was born from the Dublin Lockout of 1913, when industrialist William Martin Murphy ‘locked out’ workers who refused to resign from the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union, sparking one of the most dramatic industrial disputes in Irish history. Faced with threats of police brutality in response to the strike, James Connolly, James Larkin and Jack White established the ICA in the winter of 1913. By the end of March 1914, the ICA espoused republican ideology and that the ownership of Ireland was ‘vested of right in the people of Ireland’. The ICA was in the process of being totally transformed, going on to provide significant support to the IRA during the 1916 Rising. Despite Connolly’s execution and the internment of many ICA members, the ICA reorganised in 1917, subsequently developing networks for arms importation and ‘intelligence’, and later providing operative support for the War of Independence in Dublin. The most extensive survey of the movement to date, The ‘Labour Hercules’ explores the ICA’s evolution into a republican army and its legacy to the present day.
Necessary Trouble
Author: Sarah JaffePublisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1568585373
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Necessary Trouble is the definitive book on the movements that are poised to permanently remake American politics. We are witnessing a moment of unprecedented political turmoil and social activism. Over the last few years, we've seen the growth of the Tea Party, a twenty-first-century black freedom struggle with BlackLivesMatter, Occupy Wall Street, and the grassroots networks supporting presidential candidates in defiance of the traditional party elites. Sarah Jaffe leads readers into the heart of these movements, explaining what has made ordinary Americans become activists. As Jaffe argues, the financial crisis in 2008 was the spark, the moment that crystallized that something was wrong. For years, Jaffe crisscrossed the country, asking people what they were angry about, and what they were doing to take power back. She attended a people's assembly in a church gymnasium in Ferguson, Missouri; walked a picket line at an Atlanta Burger King; rode a bus from New York to Ohio with student organizers; and went door-to-door in Queens days after Hurricane Sandy. From the successful fight for a 15 minimum wage in Seattle and New York to the halting of Shell's Arctic drilling program, Americans are discovering the effectiveness of making good, necessary trouble. Regardless of political alignment, they are boldly challenging who wields power in this country.
Republicanism and Socialism in Ireland
Author: PRISCILLA. METSCHERPublisher:
ISBN: 9780993578502
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
The Re-conquest of Ireland
Author: James ConnollyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Radical Politics in Modern Ireland
Author: David LynchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Delves into the internal politics and personalities that brought life to the Irish Socialist Republican Party. The political significance of the organisation led by James Connolly is viewed in both the international and national sphere. The legacy of theISRP has had an impact on the left wing and republican movements in Ireland for many decades.