Collected Works: Volume Two

by James Connolly

Genres: Ireland

488 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1988

About the author

James Connolly (Irish: Séamas Ó Conghaile) was an Irish socialist leader. He was born in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, to Irish immigrant parents. He left school for working life at the age of 11, but became one of the leading Marxist theorists of his day. Though proud of his Irish background, he also took a role in Scottish and American politics. He was executed by a British firing squad because of his leadership role in the Easter Rising of 1916.

Reviews

[Josh Peoples · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book to get a look at the everyday life of a revolutionary, these collected works of opinion pieces mainly written for the Workers’ Republic shows a broad spectrum of Connolly’s political views. It is refreshing to see his firm stance against WW1 from the onset of the war, in contrast to Redmond gladly sending thousands of young Irish men to France to die for his party’s right to rule the masses. An eloquent writer and a true visionary.