![]() ![]() 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. Then came a period of seven years in the USA where he worked with Daniel De Leon’s Socialist Labor Party. ![]() 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”. As a young man he was one of the pioneers of the modern labour movement in Edinburgh, the city of his birth. ![]() James Connolly, Irish Socialist Republican and greatest of all Irish labour leaders, was shot – strapped to a chair because his wounds forbade him to stand – by a British firing squad on May 12, 1916.Ĭonnolly’s work and ideas left their mark not only in Ireland but on American and British labour movements. ![]()
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