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The Life and Times of James Connoll
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Published in 2018 by Manifesto Pres
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Foreword to the 2018 edition by Mic
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sometimes fury, for the sake of the
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Irish Republic, united in independe
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I Childhood 1868 - 1882 When Edinbu
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The most depressed section of the p
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Two years after his marriage to Mar
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Whatever the precise foundation for
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Robert Lynd first met Connolly arou
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II Youth 1882 - 1889 Very few detai
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The reason for the rendezvous at Pe
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who belonged to the social club con
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with the larger commercial and indu
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He had been mayor of a Commune in P
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Catholics for keeping their eye ope
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when the Liberal Government was pac
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this. But even the work of non-soci
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“The population of Edinburgh is l
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mind. “Ireland means all the peop
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workmen of town and country to come
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IV Local leader 1894 - 1896 Thanks
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favourable to transferring the Iris
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many of its supporters were not on
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Connolly found himself unwanted by
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Edinburgh and Leith, and when a by-
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- most emphatically should not be .
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Dublin unemployment and the threat
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palliating the evils of our present
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with the oppressors. But it was not
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on July 31, together with the two L
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Some of the formulations in “Irel
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advertisement was inserted in Blatc
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had been draped in the semblance of
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VI Polemics and setbacks 1897 - 189
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improvements. His wife looked round
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national rededication. W.B. Yeats,
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worthless either as food or as seed
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against imperialism was once more r
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demonstration, had built up a flour
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The files of the Workers’ Republi
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conducted energetic Marxist educati
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The alternate failure of “constit
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drove along Abbey Street and across
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the upper or middle classes”. The
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possibilities of the I.S.R.P. The f
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and Lyng. Connolly was probably una
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the navy, the police, the judges, t
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that the Kautsky resolution had con
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“The term revolution did not nece
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3. Rent tribunals to fix fair rents
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dissolved for supporting Friedberg
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Named The Socialist, and published
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4. Workmen’s compensation equal t
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four hundred Englishmen and Scotsme
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appeal to reelers and spinners who
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The Home Rule Bill passed its third
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Lacking the soaring inspiration of
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a manifesto commenting upon the way
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accepted as a practical possibility
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Street meeting, he had advised peop
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Martins’ home. In the afternoon t
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augmented when the first foodship,
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employers’ demand for Larkin’s
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the Liverpool dockers declared them
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to honour their fighters and martyr
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Swansea, Bristol, Heysham, Manchest
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favourable reaction was immediately
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secretary of the Transport Federati
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Connolly called a meeting of his Ex
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persuade the Head Line to employ th
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XVIII Partition 1913 - 1914 The Bri
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“In this great crisis of Ireland,
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We aliens of the west.” The “be
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Irish T.U.C. forthwith into a Labou
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XIX Imperialist war 1914 - 1915 Acc
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“Now you must stand up for your o
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them now. The Socialist condemned t
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commence an uprising without rifles
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in the short time, and it is said t
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Redmondites had gone. But two trend
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are on the table! If you leave us a
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XX Maturing revolution 1915 - 1916
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given. The struggle continued until
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“That involved the question wheth
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labour. An immediate appeal for fun
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decided that the time was inopportu
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Tactics. By using the expression
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The clumsy construction excludes th
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along with his own statement of pol
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XXI The Dread Abyss Youth of Irelan
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“Without the slightest trace of i
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without war. All war was alike to t
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fears were heightened when Connolly
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On Palm Sunday the Executive had is
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Easter 1916 was the climacteric of
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were insufficient men to hold it. T
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could not be taken through lack of
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e quenched. From then on preparatio
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ecoming convinced of the need for a
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“I personally thank God that I ha
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Epilogue Throughout Ireland are str
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appeared in a Dublin paper with the
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evolutionary and the reformist, the
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8 Files of The Scotsman, Edinburgh
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Salford Reporter. 6 Recollections o
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Chapter XVI 1 Reports of Irish T.U.
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The Life and Times of James Connoll