'Jim' Connolly and the Irish Rising of 1916 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Tho extremely active in the American working class movement, despite the mental agony he suffered owing to the distress of his family, thru poverty, Connolly never lost interest in the Irish revolutionary movement, nationalist and proletarian. He attached considerable importance to the necessity of reaching the Irish nation alist workers in the United States with the message of socialism. He founded the Irish Socialist Federation and The Harp, as its official organ Of this monthly sheet Connolly was editor, printer and newsboy.

The Federation, and its mission, was sneered at in a superior manner by the official socialists and it graduallydeclined. In 1910 Connolly returned to Ireland at the invitation of some of 'his old comrades and he went to work in Belfast as organizer for the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, which was founded by Jim Larkin. Connolly held this position until 1914, when Larkin went to the United States on a speaking tour and remained there involuntarily for over eight years.

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