• James Connolly
  • Marxists.org
  • First published as a pamphlet in 1901.
  • The articles all first appeared in Workers’ Republic, June-August 1899.

PREACHED TO IRISH TOILERS


  • There is a New Evangel
  • At this moment preached in France
  • And the priests of its great doctrines
  • Despise the tyrant’s glance;
  • Oh, that Holy Gospel echoes
  • From distant sea to sea!
  • It teaches Men are Brothers,
  • It teaches all are Free!

Joseph Brennan, ‘Irish Tribune‘, 1848.


  1. State Monopoly versus Socialism
  2. Socialism and Religion
  3. The Economic Basis of Politics
  4. Father Finlay, S.J., and Socialism
  5. Socialism and Political Reformers

‘Ireland as distinct from her people, is nothing to me: and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for Ireland, and can yet pass unmoved through our streets and witness all the wrong and the suffering, the shame and the degradation brought upon the people of Ireland—aye, brought by Irishmen upon Irishmen and women, without burning to end it, is in my opinion, a fraud and a liar in his heart, no matter how he loves that combination of chemical elements he is pleased to call Ireland.’

James Connolly.