James Connolly (1868-1916) was the foremost Irish socialist republican of his time. He was the leader of the Irish Citizen Army (ICA), founder and leader of the Irish Socialist Republican Party and Commandant of the Dublin Brigade during the 1916 Easter Rising, in which he was executed for his role alongside six other signatories of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. His writings focused on a synthesis of revolutionary socialism with Irish nationalism as well as a class-based analysis of Irish history.
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Writings
Labour Representation (1898)
The New Evangel (1901)
Labour in Irish History (1910)
Labour, Nationality and Religion (1910)
The Re-Conquest of Ireland (1915)
Party Politicians—Noble, Ignoble and Local (1894)
Irish Socialist Republican Party (1896)
Can Irish Republicans Be Politicians? (1896)
Other People’s Opinions (1897)
Socialism and Nationalism (1897)
Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee (1897)
Socialism and Irish Nationalism (1897)
Patriotism and Labour (1897)
Erin’s Hope: The Ends and the Means (1897)
Home Thrusts, 3rd September 1898 (1898)
British and Russian Imperialism II (1898)
Home Thrusts, 17th September 1898 (1898)
British and Russian Imperialism I (1898)
The Independent and New Machinery (1898)
Regicide and Revolution (1898)
The Irish Land Question (1898)
Parnellism and Labour (1898)
Home Thrusts, 22nd October 1898 (1898)
A Socialist Candidate for Dublin Corporation (1898)
Peasant Proprietorship and Socialism (1898)
Home Thrusts, 27th August 1898 (1898)
Home Thrusts, 20th August, 1898 (1898)
An Open Letter to Dublin Castle (1898)
The Men We Honour (1898)
Home Rule Journalists and Patriotism (1898)
A Word For Munster (1898)
The Language Movement (1898)
The Roots of Modern War (1898)
The Fighting Race (1898)
America and Ireland—Farmers’ Demands (1899)
‘Soldiers of the Queen’ (1899)
Home Thrusts, 23rd September 1899 (1899)
Home Thrusts, 9th September 1899 (1899)
The Re-Conquest of Ireland (1899)
Law and Order (1899)
The South African War I (1899)
Home Thrusts, May 1899 (1899)
Home Thrusts, 1st July 1899 (1899)
The Sweating System (1899)
Resurgam! (1899)
Socialism and Imperialism (1899)
Let Us Free Ireland! (1899)
Physical Force in Irish Politics (1899)
Compositors and the Linotype (1899)
Home Thrusts, 19th August 1899 (1899)
Imperialism and Socialism (1899)
The South African War II (1899)
A Plea for the Children (1899)
Dogma and Food (1899)
Home Thrusts, 9th December (1899)
Home Thrusts, 16th December (1899)
Landlordism in Towns (1899)
Dublin and the War (1899)
Our Mad Rulers (1899)
Home Thrusts, 15 September 1900 (1900)
An Object Lesson (1900)
The Corporation and the Children (1900)
Home Thrusts, 10th November 1900 (1900)
Parliamentary Democracy (1900)
Resolution of Sympathy with the Boer Republics (1900)
Ireland Sober is Ireland Free? (1900)
Difficulties of Capitalism (1900)
Home Thrusts, 3rd June (1900)
Difficulties of Socialism (1900)
Bruce Glasier in Ireland (1900)
The Coming Generation (1900)
Socialist Electioneering (1901)
Class Government and Class War (1901)
Justice and Millerand (1901)
Home Rulers and Labour (1901)
Letter to the Secretary of the Edinburgh branch of the SDF (1901)
Wood Quay Ward (1901)
Taken Root! (1902)
The Irish Socialist Republican Party and the Dewsbury Election (1902)
Our ‘American Mission’ (1902)
Coronation of King Edward VII (1902)
Unpatriotic? (1903)
Loubet—and Other Things (1903)
The American SDP (1903)
The Socialist Labour Party of America and the London SDF (1903)
A Rebel Song (1903)
The New Danger (1903)
Wood Quay Ward, Election Address (1903)
Notes from New York (1907)
We Only Want The Earth (1907)
Irish Trade Union Congress (1907)
Revolutionary Song (1907)
Wages and Prices (1907)
Irish Socialist Republic (1908)
The Coming Revolt in India II (1908)
A Political Party of the Workers (1908)
Our Purpose and Function (1908)
Harp Strings (1908)
The Coming Revolt in India I (1908)
To Irish Wage Workers in America (1908)
Sinn Féin And Socialism (1908)
Declaration of Principles of the Irish Socialist Federation (1908)
North-East Ulster (1913)
July the 12th (1913)
Labour in Dublin (1913)
Belgian Refugees and Fair Labour (1914)
War: What It Means To You (1914)
An Irish Blackguard (1915)
Why The Citizen Army Honours Rossa (1915)
Final Dispatch From The GPO (1916)
The National Festival (1916)
Last Statement (1916)
The Irish Flag (1916)
What Is A Free Nation? (1916)
