I've started doing walking tours / workshops again and it's great because I get asked questions that wouldn't occur to me because, well, I'm blind to my own research. One of them is: why did the Irish left lose that anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, comprador/middleman analysis that was so prevalent not only in Connolly's writings but also … Continue reading MayDay 1949
Author: Conor McCabe
I write on class, capital, and Irish left/radical history, and am involved in activist education with political, trade union, and community groups
Connolly and the Mendicity Institute
One of the joys of undertaking to edit James Connolly's early writings was the discovery of three previously unknown short stories which I came across through an extensive trawl of the archives. Up to now his only known short story was 'The Mendicity and its guests' which was published in Worker's Republic, 27 August 1898 … Continue reading Connolly and the Mendicity Institute
Owen Dudley Edwards & Bernard Ransom (eds) James Connolly: Selected Political Writings (1973)
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Nora Connolly (1916) Last Interviews with my Father
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Mac Lochlainn (1971) Last Words (Connolly only)
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