I’m currently editing the complete works of James Connolly. The first volume, covering 1889 to 1898, was published in Autumn 2024 with Iskra Books.
Below is a collection of primary and secondary works I’ve come across while researching his writings. No endorsement or recommendation is given to any of the items below (with the exception of primary publications by Connolly himself). The biographies, collections, and secondary items are of varying quality (to put it kindly) and are reproduced for reference only.
Minute Books of the Irish Socialist Republican Party, 1896-1904
Minute Book No. 1: 29 May 1896 – 18 Sep 1898 (hardcopy only NLI, not digitised)
Minute Book No. 2: 19 Sep 1898 – 26 Nov 1899
Minute Book. No. 3: 27 Nov 1899 – 11 Jan 1901
Minute Book No. 4: 22 Jan 1901 – 20 Jul 1902
Minute Book No. 5: 22 Jul 1902 – 23 Feb 1904
Writings
James Connolly, ed. The Rights of Ireland and the Faith of a Felon, by James Fintan Lalor. Dublin: Irish Socialist Republican Party, 1896. Reprint, Dublin: Socialist Party of Ireland, 1906.
⸻ ed. ‘98 Readings Dublin, 1897.
⸻. Erin’s Hope: The End and the Means. Dublin: Irish Socialist Republican Party, 1897; New York: Socialist Labour Party of America, 1897.
⸻. Home Thrusts, by Spailpin. Dublin: Irish Socialist Republican Party, 1901.
⸻. The New Evangel. Dublin: Irish Socialist Republican Party, 1901.
⸻. Socialism and Nationalism. Dublin: Irish Socialist Republican Party, 1901.
⸻, ed. Songs of Freedom by Irish Authors. New York: J.E.C. Donnelly, 1907.
⸻. Socialism Made Easy. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1909.
⸻. The Axe to the Root : Industrial Unionism and Working Class Political Action. Melbourne: Socialist Party of Victoria, 1910. 2nd Edition, 1916.
⸻. Labour, Nationality and Religion. 1910. Reprint, New York: James Connolly Socialist Club, 1918.
⸻. Labour in Irish History. Dublin: Maunsel & Co., 1910.
⸻. The Re-Conquest of Ireland. Dublin: Liberty Hall, 1915.
Collections
Labour in Ireland (1917) – collected edition of Labour in Irish History and The Re-Conquest of Ireland with new introduction by Robert Lynd.
The Dying Socialist to his Son! (A Legacy) and Other Verses, by James Connolly. Sydney : Thos. Batho. People’s Printery, 1918.
Axe to the Root and Old Wine in New Bottles (1921)
A Socialist and War (ed. P.J. Musgrove) (1941)
Socialism and Nationalism (ed. Desmond Ryan / William O’Brien) (1948)
Labour and Easter Week 1916 (ed. Desmond Ryan / William O’Brien) [1949] (1966)
The Workers’ Republic (ed. Desmond Ryan/William O’Brien) (1951)
Press Poisoners in Ireland and other Articles (ICO / BICO, 1968;1972)
Yellow Unions in Ireland and Other Articles (ICO, 1968)
Last Words (Connolly only) (ed. Mac Lochlainn) (1971)
James Connolly – Selected Political Writings (eds. Owen Dudley Edwards & Bernard Ransom) (1973)
James Connolly – Selected Writings (ed. P. Berresford Ellis, 1973; 1981)
What Connolly Said (ed. Proinsias Mac Aonghusa, 1995)
James Connolly Political Writings 1893-1916 (ed. Donal Nevin, 2011)
Writings of James Connolly – Collected Works (ed. Donal Nevin, 2011)
The Legacy: The Poems and Songs of James Connolly (Labour Party, 2021)
The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly, 1889-1898 (ed. Conor McCabe, 2024)
Biographies
James Connolly: A Study of his Work and Worth by Gerald O’Connor/ Seán Mac Giollarnáth (1917)
James Connolly, His Life, Work, and Writings by Desmond Ryan (1924)
Connolly of Ireland: Patriot and Socialist by Noëlle Davies (1946)
James Connolly: The Forerunner by R.M. Fox (1946)
The Life and Times of James Connolly by Desmond Greaves [1961] (1986)
James Connolly by Samuel Levenson (1973)
Young Connolly by Sean Cronin (1978)
James Connolly by Ruth Dudley Edwards (1981)
James Connolly by J.L. Hyland (1997)
Secondary Material – Books, Articles, and Dissertations
Padraic Colum (1916) On the Death of James Connolly and Francis Sheehy-Skeffington
Rev. L. McKenna (1919) The Teachings of James Connolly
Richard Dawson (1920) Red Terror and Green: The Sinn Féin-Bolshevist Movement
J. Dunsmore Clarkson (1925) Labour and Nationalism in Ireland
Irish Workers’ Party (1966) 1916-1966
Kara P. Brewer (1972) The American Career of James Connolly (dissertation)
Bernard Campbell Ransom (1975) James Connolly and the Scottish Left 1890-1916 (dissertation)
Carl Reeve & Ann Barton Reeve (1978) James Connolly and the United States: The Road to the 1916 Rebellion
David Howell (1986) A Lost Left: Three Studies in Socialism and Nationalism [Connolly section only]
David Lynch (2005) Radical Politics in Modern Ireland: The Irish Socialist Republican Party 1896-1904
Niamh C. Lynch (2006) “Live Ireland, Perish the Empire’: Irish Nationalist Anti-Imperialism c.1840-1900 (dissertation)
Chole Ross Alexander (2013) James Connolly and the Internationalism of the Scottish and Irish Labour Movements (1880-1916) (dissertation)
Nora Connolly
Last Interviews with my Father (1916)
The Unbroken Tradition (1918)
James Connolly: Portrait of a Rebel Father (1935)
We Shall Rise Again (1981)
Conor McCabe 