What Connolly Said

Often deliberately airbrushed out of Irish history by what Connolly himself described as the Irish status quo, he remains a radical and explosive figure in Irish history and political thought. His own beliefs and convictions have long been obscured by his central role as a signatory of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic and Commander-in-chief of Republican forces in Dublin during the Easter Rising who was executed by a British firing squad in Dublin in 1916. This compendium of Connolly's own writings brings together the cutting edge of his views on women and freedom, nationalism and internationalism, the 1913 Lock Out, the role of socialism in Ireland, clerical interference in political life, Ulster, the Irish language, and many other burning and controversial issues still central to debate in Ireland today.