James Connolly: Irish Revolutionary

ISBN-13: 9781476682228 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str.

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Opis

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.

Spis treści

• 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