Contents

Introduction

Chronology of Connolly’s Life

James Connolly’s Writings

1. Manifesto of the Irish Socialist Republican Party

2. Socialism and Nationalism

3. Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee

4. The Men We Honour

5. The Gaelic Revival

6. The Roots of Modern War

7. British Butchers in Egypt

8. Socialism and Religion

9. The Working Class and Revolutionary Action

10. Let Us Free Ireland!

11. Taken Root!

12. Emigration

13. Sinn Féin and the Language Movement

14. To Irish Wage Workers in America

15. Facets of American Liberty

16. Socialism Made Easy

17. Sinn Féin, Socialism, and the Nation

18. Erin’s Hope: The End and the Means

19. Industrial Unionism and the Trade Unions

20. Labour in Irish History

21. Sweatshops behind the Orange Flag

22. Ireland, Karl Marx, and William Walker

23. Direct Action in Belfast

24. Visit of King George V

25. Some Rambling Remarks: “The Struggle Emancipates”

26. July the Twelfth

27. To the Linen Slaves of Belfast: Manifesto of the Irish Women Workers Union

28. North-East Ulster

29. The Dublin Lockout: On the Eve

30. Glorious Dublin!

31. How to Release Jim Larkin

32. A Titanic Struggle

33. A Fiery Cross or Christmas Bells

34. The Isolation of Dublin

35. Labor and the Proposed Partition of Ireland

36. The Exclusion of Ulster

37. Old Wine in New Bottles

38. Our Duty in This Crisis

39. A Continental Revolution

40. The National Danger

41. A Martyr for Conscience Sake: Karl Liebknecht

42. The Hope of Ireland

43. Courtsmartial and Revolution

44. Socialists and the War

45. Revolutionary Unionism and War

46. Moscow Insurrection of 1905

47. For the Citizen Army

48. Ireland: Disaffected or Revolutionary

49. Economic Conscription

50. The Ties That Bind

51. The Re-Conquest of Ireland: Woman

52. We Will Rise Again

53. The Irish Flag

Some Suggestions for Further Reading

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index