The life and times of James Connolly / by C. Desmond Greaves.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berlin, Germany : Seven Seas Publishers, ©1961, 1971Description: 448 pages ; 19 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 335.4/092/4 B
LOC classification:
  • DA 965.C7 G7 1971
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Contents:
I. Childhood 1868-1882 -- II. Youth 1882-1889 -- III. Able apprentice 1889-1894 -- IV. Local leader 1894-1896 -- V. Dublin and the I.S.R.P. 1896-1897 -- VI. Polemics and set-backs 1897-1898 -- VII. The workers' republic 1898-1899 -- VIII. International socialism 1900-1902 -- IX. The Socialist Labour Party 1902-1903 -- X. America 1903-1905 -- XI. The Industrial Workers of the World 1905-1908 -- XII. The harp 1908 -- XIII. Preparing for return 1908-1910 -- XIV. The Socialist Party of Ireland 1910-1911 -- XV. Belfast organiser 1911-1912 -- XVI. Counter-revolution 1912-1913 -- XVII. The great lock-out 1913 --XVIII. Partition 1913-1914 -- XIX. Imperialist War 1914-1915 -- XX. Maturing revolution 1915-1916 -- XXI. The dread abyss --
Summary: "C. Desmond Greaves's The Life and Times of James Connolly, first published in 1961, is a major contribution to the history of Ireland's fight for freedom and is widely recognized as a standard biography of the greatest of all Irish Labour leaders. Connolly's work and ideas left their mark not only in Ireland but on the American and British labour movements. In his early manhood he was one of the pioneers of the modern labour movement in Edinburgh, the city of his birth. The scene then shifted to Dublin, where Connolly founded the Irish Socialist Republican Party, whose programme declared: 'The national and economic freedom of the Irish people must be sought in... the establishment of an Irish Socialist Republic.' Then came a period of seven years in the U.S.A. where he worked with Daniel De Leon's Socialist Labor Party. A strong critic of De Leon's 'sectish' tendencies, he became one of the founders of the I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World). In 1910 Connolly returned to Ireland and played a leading part in the working-class struggles in Belfast, and in the great Dublin lock-out — the highest point reached by the class struggle in Europe in the period leading up to the 1914 war. On the outbreak of war with Germany, Connolly declared: 'We have no foreign enemy except the Government of England... We serve neither King nor Kaiser, but Ireland.' Thus he set out on the path which led to the Easter Rising of 1916." -- from the back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 432-439) and index.

I. Childhood 1868-1882 -- II. Youth 1882-1889 -- III. Able apprentice 1889-1894 -- IV. Local leader 1894-1896 -- V. Dublin and the I.S.R.P. 1896-1897 -- VI. Polemics and set-backs 1897-1898 -- VII. The workers' republic 1898-1899 -- VIII. International socialism 1900-1902 -- IX. The Socialist Labour Party 1902-1903 -- X. America 1903-1905 -- XI. The Industrial Workers of the World 1905-1908 -- XII. The harp 1908 -- XIII. Preparing for return 1908-1910 -- XIV. The Socialist Party of Ireland 1910-1911 -- XV. Belfast organiser 1911-1912 -- XVI. Counter-revolution 1912-1913 -- XVII. The great lock-out 1913 --XVIII. Partition 1913-1914 -- XIX. Imperialist War 1914-1915 -- XX. Maturing revolution 1915-1916 -- XXI. The dread abyss --

"C. Desmond Greaves's The Life and Times of James Connolly, first published in 1961, is a major contribution to the history of Ireland's fight for freedom and is widely recognized as a standard biography of the greatest of all Irish Labour leaders. Connolly's work and ideas left their mark not only in Ireland but on the American and British labour movements. In his early manhood he was one of the pioneers of the modern labour movement in Edinburgh, the city of his birth. The scene then shifted to Dublin, where Connolly founded the Irish Socialist Republican Party, whose programme declared: 'The national and economic freedom of the Irish people must be sought in... the establishment of an Irish Socialist Republic.' Then came a period of seven years in the U.S.A. where he worked with Daniel De Leon's Socialist Labor Party. A strong critic of De Leon's 'sectish' tendencies, he became one of the founders of the I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World). In 1910 Connolly returned to Ireland and played a leading part in the working-class struggles in Belfast, and in the great Dublin lock-out — the highest point reached by the class struggle in Europe in the period leading up to the 1914 war. On the outbreak of war with Germany, Connolly declared: 'We have no foreign enemy except the Government of England... We serve neither King nor Kaiser, but Ireland.' Thus he set out on the path which led to the Easter Rising of 1916." -- from the back cover.

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