Songs of Freedom is the name of a songbook edited by James Connolly and published in 1907. Connolly's introduction is better known than the collection for which it was written, containing his oft quoted maxim: "Until the movement is marked by the joyous, defiant singing of revolutionary songs, it lacks one of the most distinctive marks of a popular revolutionary movement, it is the dogma of a few and not the faith of the multitude." Though most of the songs were of Irish derivation, the songbook itself was published in New York and directed to the American Working Class; explicitly...