Studies in Irish radical leadership is a collection of biographies of labour leaders and radical activists. The book aims to discuss the lives of the less well-known men and women of the left; to explore alternative approaches to history; to put radicals in their social context; and to study the meaning of leadership. Looking beyond a field dominated by Connolly and Larkin, the book takes second string personalities out from under the shadows of the giants. The subjects have been selected to be emblematic of phases and strands in labour history and representative of the variety of characters...