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James Connolly

Irish republican, trade unionist and socialist revolutionary

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James Connolly was an Irish republican, trade unionist, and socialist revolutionary who played a significant role in Irish independence and labor movements. He matters because he represents an important intersection of working-class activism and Irish nationalism during a pivotal period in modern Irish history.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1868
Died: 1916
Works: 72

Top works

The Connolly-Walker controversy on socialist unity in Ireland
Socialism made easy
Sinn Féin & socialism
Connolly's suppressed articles
The Connolly/De Leon controversy on wages, marriage and the Church

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: GB
Active from: 1942-11-24

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 138
Total plays: 841

From the rollicking welcome of "A Festive Song" to the defiant battle cry of "Watchword of Labor," Songs of Freedom accomplishes the difficult task of making contemporary music out of old revolutionary songs. Far from the archival preservation of embalmed corpses, the inspired performance of a rocking band turns the timeless lyrics of James Connolly into timely manifestos for today's young rebels. As Connolly himself repeatedly urged, nothing can replace the power of music to raise the fighting

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James Connolly (Irish: Séamas Ó Conghaile; 5 June 1868 – 12 May 1916) was a Scottish-born Irish republican, socialist, and trade union leader, executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland. He remains an important figure both for the Irish labour movement and for Irish republicanism.

He became an active socialist in Scotland, where he had been born in 1868 to Irish parents. On moving to Ireland in 1896, he established the country's first socialist party, the Irish Socialist Republican Party. It called for an Ireland independent not only of Britain's Crown and Parliament, but also of British "capitalists, landlords and financiers".