James Connolly




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James Connolly

James Connolly2.jpg
Connolly in c. 1900

Born
(1868-06-05)5 June 1868
Cowgate, Edinburgh, Scotland
Died 12 May 1916(1916-05-12) (aged 47)
Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, Ireland
Buried

Arbour Hill Prison, Dublin
Allegiance
Irish Citizen Army
Irish Labour Party
Irish Republic
Irish Socialist Republican Party
Socialist Labor Party
Social Democratic Federation
Industrial Workers of the World
Irish Socialist Federation
Years of service 1913–1916
Rank Commandant General
Battles/wars Easter Rising































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James Connolly (Irish: Séamas Ó Conghaile;[1] 5 June 1868 – 12 May 1916) was an Irish republican and socialist leader. He was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World and founder of the Irish Socialist Republican Party. With James Larkin, he was centrally involved in the Dublin lock-out of 1913, as a result of which the two men formed the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) that year. He opposed British rule in Ireland, and was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916, when the ICA, along with the larger Irish Volunteers, seized Dublin and held it for six days.


Connolly was born in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, to Irish parents. He left school for working life at the age of 11, and became one of the leading Marxist theorists of his day. He also took a role in Scottish and American politics. He was executed by a British firing squad because of his leadership role in the Easter Rising.




Contents






  • 1 Early life


  • 2 Socialist involvement


  • 3 Easter Rising


  • 4 Death


  • 5 Family


  • 6 Legacy


  • 7 See also


  • 8 Notes


  • 9 References


  • 10 Further reading


    • 10.1 Writings


    • 10.2 Bibliography




  • 11 External links





Early life


Connolly was born in an Irish immigrant slum in Edinburgh in 1868, the third son of John Connolly and Mary McGinn.[2][note 1] His parents had moved to Scotland from Monaghan, Ireland, and settled in Cowgate, an Irish ghetto where thousands of Irish people lived.[4] He spoke with a Scottish accent throughout his life.[5]


He was born in St Patrick's Roman Catholic parish, in the Cowgate district of Edinburgh known as "Little Ireland".[6] His father and grandfathers were labourers.[2] He had an education up to the age of about ten in the local Catholic primary school.[7] He left and worked in labouring jobs. Owing to the economic difficulties he was having,[8] like his eldest brother John, he joined the British Army.[9]


He enlisted at age 14,[10] falsifying his age and giving his name as Reid, as his brother John had done.[11] He served in Ireland with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Scots Regiment[10] for nearly seven years, during a turbulent period in rural areas known as the Land War.[12] He would later become involved in the land issue.


He developed a deep hatred for the British Army that lasted his entire life.[13] When he heard that his regiment was being transferred to India, he deserted.[14]


Connolly had another reason for not wanting to go to India; a young woman by the name of Lillie Reynolds.[15] Lillie moved to Scotland with James after he left the army and they married in April 1890.[16] They settled in Edinburgh. There, Connolly began to get involved in the Scottish Socialist Federation,[17] but with a young family to support, he needed a way to provide for them.


He briefly established a cobbler's shop in 1895, but this failed after a few months[18] as his shoe-mending skills were insufficient.[19] He was strongly active with the socialist movement at the time, and prioritized this over his own work.



Socialist involvement




Connolly, c. 1900


He became secretary of the Scottish Socialist Federation. At the time his brother John was secretary; after John spoke at a rally in favour of the eight-hour day, however, he was fired from his job with the Edinburgh Corporation, so while he looked for work, James took over as secretary. During this time, Connolly became involved with the Independent Labour Party which Keir Hardie had formed in 1893. At some time during this period, he took up the study of, and advocated the use of, the neutral international language, Esperanto.[20]


By 1892 he was involved in the Scottish Socialist Federation, acting as its secretary from 1895. Two months after the birth of his third daughter, word came to Connolly that the Dublin Socialist Club was looking for a full-time secretary, a job that offered a salary of a pound a week.[21] Connolly and his family moved to Dublin,[22] where he took up the position. At his instigation, the club quickly evolved into the Irish Socialist Republican Party (ISRP).[23] The ISRP is regarded by many Irish historians as a party of pivotal importance in the early history of Irish socialism and republicanism. While active as a socialist in Great Britain, Connolly was the founding editor of The Socialist newspaper and was among the founders of the Socialist Labour Party which split from the Social Democratic Federation in 1903. Connolly joined Maud Gonne and Arthur Griffith in the Dublin protests against the Boer War.[24] A combination of frustration with the progress of the ISRP and economic necessity caused him to emigrate to the United States in September 1903, with no plans as to what he would do there.[25] While in America he was a member of the Socialist Labor Party of America (1906), the Socialist Party of America (1909) and the Industrial Workers of the World, and founded the Irish Socialist Federation in New York, 1907. He famously had a chapter of his 1910 book Labour in Irish History entitled "A chapter of horrors: Daniel O’Connell and the working class." critical of the achiever of Catholic Emancipation 60 years earlier.[26]


On Connolly's return to Ireland in 1910 he was right-hand man to James Larkin in the Irish Transport and General Workers Union. He stood twice for the Wood Quay ward of Dublin Corporation but was unsuccessful. His name, and those of his family, appears in the 1911 Census of Ireland - his occupation is listed as "National Organiser Socialist Party".[27] In 1913, in response to the Lockout, he, along with an ex-British officer, Jack White, founded the Irish Citizen Army (ICA), an armed and well-trained body of labour men whose aim was to defend workers and strikers, particularly from the frequent brutality of the Dublin Metropolitan Police. Though they only numbered about 250 at most, their goal soon became the establishment of an independent and socialist Irish nation. He also founded the Irish Labour Party as the political wing of the Irish Trade Union Congress in 1912 and was a member of its National Executive. Around this time he met Winifred Carney in Belfast, who became his secretary and would later accompany him during the Easter Rising. Like Vladimir Lenin, Connolly opposed the First World War explicitly from a socialist perspective. Rejecting the Redmondite position, he declared "I know of no foreign enemy of this country except the British Government."[28]



Easter Rising


Connolly stood aloof from the leadership of the Irish Volunteers. He considered them too bourgeois and unconcerned with Ireland's economic independence. In 1916, thinking they were merely posturing and unwilling to take decisive action against Britain, he attempted to goad them into action by threatening to send the ICA against the British Empire alone, if necessary. This alarmed the members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, who had already infiltrated the Volunteers and had plans for an insurrection that very year. In order to talk Connolly out of any such rash action, the IRB leaders, including Tom Clarke and Patrick Pearse, met with Connolly to see if an agreement could be reached. During the meeting, the IRB and the ICA agreed to act together at Easter of that year.


During the Easter Rising, beginning on 24 April 1916, Connolly was Commandant of the Dublin Brigade. As the Dublin Brigade had the most substantial role in the rising, he was de facto commander-in-chief. Connolly's leadership in the Easter rising was considered formidable. Michael Collins said of Connolly that he "would have followed him through hell.""[29]


Following the surrender, he said to other prisoners: "Don't worry. Those of us that signed the proclamation will be shot. But the rest of you will be set free."



Death




Location of Connolly's execution at Kilmainham Gaol


Connolly was not actually held in gaol, but in a room (now called the "Connolly Room") at the State Apartments in Dublin Castle, which had been converted to a first-aid station for troops recovering from the war.[30]


Connolly was sentenced to death by firing squad for his part in the rising. On 12 May 1916 he was taken by military ambulance to Royal Hospital Kilmainham, across the road from Kilmainham Gaol, and from there taken to the gaol, where he was to be executed. Visited by his wife, and asking about public opinion, he commented, "They will all forget that I am an Irishman."[31]


Connolly had been so badly injured from the fighting (a doctor had already said he had no more than a day or two to live, but the execution order was still given) that he was unable to stand before the firing squad; he was carried to a prison courtyard on a stretcher. His absolution and last rites were administered by a Capuchin, Father Aloysius Travers. Asked to pray for the soldiers about to shoot him, he said: "I will say a prayer for all men who do their duty according to their lights."[32] Instead of being marched to the same spot where the others had been executed, at the far end of the execution yard, he was tied to a chair and then shot.[33]


His body (along with those of the other leaders) was put in a mass grave without a coffin. The executions of the rebel leaders deeply angered the majority of the Irish population, most of whom had shown no support during the rebellion. It was Connolly's execution that caused the most controversy.[34] Historians have pointed to the manner of execution of Connolly and similar rebels, along with their actions, as being factors that caused public awareness of their desires and goals and gathered support for the movements that they had died fighting for.


The executions were not well received, even throughout Britain, and drew unwanted attention from the United States, which the British Government was seeking to bring into the war in Europe. H. H. Asquith, the Prime Minister, ordered that no more executions were to take place; an exception being that of Roger Casement as he had not yet been tried.



Family


James Connolly and his wife Lillie had six children. Nora became an influential writer and campaigner within the Irish-republican movement as an adult. Roddy continued his father's politics. In later years, both became members of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament). Moira became a doctor and married Richard Beech.[35] One of Connolly's daughters Mona died in 1904 aged 13, when she burned herself while she did the washing for an aunt.[36]


Three months after James Connolly's execution his wife was received into the Catholic Church, at Church St. on 15 August.[37]



Legacy




Statue of James Connolly in Dublin


Connolly's legacy in Ireland is mainly due to his contribution to the republican cause; his legacy as a socialist has been claimed by a variety of left-wing and left-republican groups, and he is also associated with the Labour Party which he founded. Connolly was among the few European members of the Second International who opposed, outright, World War I. This put him at odds with most of the socialist leaders of Europe.


He was influenced by and heavily involved with the radical Industrial Workers of the World labour union, and envisaged socialism as Industrial Union control of production. Also he envisioned the IWW forming their own political party that would bring together the feuding socialist groups such as the Socialist Labor Party of America and the Socialist Party of America.[38] Likewise, he envisaged independent Ireland as a socialist republic. His connection and views on Revolutionary Unionism and Syndicalism have raised debate on if his image for a workers republic would be one of State or Grassroots socialism.[39][40][41][42][43][44] For a time he was involved with De Leonism and the Second International until he later broke with both.[45]


In Scotland, Connolly's thinking influenced socialists such as John Maclean, who would, like him, combine his leftist thinking with nationalist ideas when he formed the Scottish Workers Republican Party.[46]




Statue of James Connolly in Belfast


The Connolly Association, a British organisation campaigning for Irish unity and independence, is named after Connolly.[47]


There is a statue of James Connolly in Dublin, outside Liberty Hall, the offices of the SIPTU trade union. Another statue of Connolly stands in Union Park, Chicago near the offices of the UE union. There is a bust of Connolly in Troy, New York, in the park behind the statue of Uncle Sam.


In March 2016 a statue of Connolly was unveiled by Northern Ireland minister Carál Ní Chuilín, and Connolly's great grandson, James Connolly Heron, on Falls Road in Belfast. [48]


In a 1972 interview on The Dick Cavett Show, John Lennon stated that James Connolly was an inspiration for his song, "Woman Is the Nigger of the World". Lennon quoted Connolly's 'the female is the slave of the slave' in explaining the feminist inspiration for the song.[49]


Connolly Station, one of the two main railway stations in Dublin, and Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, are named in his honour.


In a 2002, BBC television production, 100 Greatest Britons where the British public were asked to register their vote, Connolly was voted in 64th place.


In 1968, Irish group The Wolfe Tones released a single named "James Connolly", which reached number 15 in the Irish charts.[50] The band Black 47 wrote and performed a song about Connolly that appears on their album Fire of Freedom. Irish singer-songwriter Niall Connolly has a song "May 12th, 1916 - A Song for James Connolly" on his album Dream Your Way Out of This One (2017).


Dúnedin Connolly GAC, a Scottish GAA club takes its name from his.[citation needed]



See also


  • James Connolly bibliography


Notes




  1. ^ He gave his place of birth as County Monaghan in the 1901 and 1911 censuses.[3]



References





  1. ^ Ó Cathasaigh, Aindrias. 1996. An Modh Conghaileach: Cuid sóisialachais Shéamais Uí Chonghaile. Dublin: Coiscéim, passim


  2. ^ ab Connolly, James; Ellis, Peter Berresford (1988). James Connolly: selected writings. London: Pluto Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-7453-0267-6..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  3. ^ "1911 Census form". Census of Ireland 1901/1911. The National Archives of Ireland. Retrieved 30 October 2010.


  4. ^ Dangerfield, George (Spring 1986). "James Joyce, James Connolly and Irish Nationalism". Irish University Review. Dublin. 16 (1): 5. ISSN 0021-1427. JSTOR 25477611.


  5. ^ Donal Nevin. 2005. "James Connolly: A Full Life", p. 636 Gill and Macmillan;
    ISBN 0-7171-3911-5


  6. ^ Levenson, Samuel (1973). James Connolly: a biography. London: Martin Brian and O'Keeffe. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-85616-130-8.


  7. ^ Morgan, Austen (1990). James Connolly : a political biography. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7190-2958-5.


  8. ^ Jeffery, Keith (15 October 2010). "Ireland and World War One". British History in-depth. BBC. Retrieved 31 October 2010.


  9. ^ Edwards, Ruth Dudley (1981). James Connolly. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-0-7171-1112-1.


  10. ^ ab O'Riordan, Tomás. "James Connolly". Multitext Project in Irish History. University College Cork, Ireland. Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 31 October 2010.


  11. ^ Reeve, Carl; Reeve, Ann Barton (1978). James Connolly and the United States: the road to the 1916 Irish rebellion. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-391-00879-3.


  12. ^ "Ireland: society & economy, 1870-1914". Ireland: society & economy, 1870-1914. University College Cork, Ireland. Archived from the original on 10 September 2010. Retrieved 8 April 2011.


  13. ^ Levenson 1973, p. 333


  14. ^ McCartan, Eugene (12 May 2006). "The man looking over our shoulder". James Connolly Memorial Lecture. James Connolly Education Trust. Archived from the original on 7 October 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2011.


  15. ^ Levenson 1973, p. 24


  16. ^ Morgan 1990, p. 15


  17. ^ Wallace, Martin (1983). 100 Irish Lives. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-7153-8331-5.


  18. ^ Mac Thomáis, Shane (8 June 2005). "Remembering the Past – James Connolly". anphoblacht.com. An Phoblacht. Retrieved 26 April 2011.


  19. ^ Levenson 1973, p. 39


  20. ^ James Connolly and Esperanto, esperanto.ie; accessed 28 May 2017.


  21. ^ Kearney, Richard (1985). The Irish mind: exploring intellectual traditions. Dublin: Wolfhound Press. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-391-03311-5.


  22. ^ Sheehan, Sean (2008). Famous Irish Men and Women. London: Evans Brothers. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-237-53432-5.


  23. ^ Hadden, Peter (Apr–May 2006). "The real ideas of James Connolly". Socialism Today (100). London: Socialist Party (England and Wales). Retrieved 28 April 2011.


  24. ^ Anthony J. Jordan. Arthur Griffith with James Joyce & WB Yeats - Liberating Ireland. Westport Books, 2013 pp. 24-25


  25. ^ Greaves, C. Desmond (1972). The Life and Times of James Connolly (2nd ed.). London: Lawrence and Wishart. pp. 166–7. ISBN 978-0853152347. Retrieved 11 August 2014.


  26. ^ "James Connolly: Labour in Irish History - Chapter 12". Marxists.org. 2003-12-08. Retrieved 2017-05-28.


  27. ^ "Census of Ireland 1911". Census.nationalarchives.ie. Retrieved 2017-05-28.


  28. ^ "James Connolly: What should Irish people do during the war?". RTÉ. 6 November 2016.


  29. ^ Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland: Tim Pat Coogan
    ISBN 9780312295110 / 0312295111


  30. ^ Costello, Peter (1999). Dublin Castle, in the life of the Irish nation. Dublin: Wolfhound Press. p. 145. ISBN 0-86327-610-5.


  31. ^ MacLochlainn, Piaras F. (1990). Last Words. OPW. p. 193.


  32. ^ Golway, Terry (2012). For the Cause of Liberty: A Thousand Years of Ireland's Heroes. Simon and Schuster.


  33. ^ "Registered Deaths in South Dublin, 1916" (PDF). irishgenealogy.ie. 04453541, 477, Entry Numbers 1–10. Retrieved 22 September 2018.


  34. ^ McGreevy, Ronan (August 8, 2014). "Is this the only picture of James Connolly from the Easter Rising?". The Irish Times. Retrieved 7 June 2017.


  35. ^ Moira Connolly, Myheritage.com


  36. ^ "Tragedy in the Connolly family". History Ireland. Retrieved 2 December 2016.


  37. ^ Gone But Not Forgotten - Fiona Connolly Archived 16 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine.


  38. ^ "James Connolly: Political Party of the Workers (1908)". Marxists.org. 2003-11-08. Retrieved 2017-05-28.


  39. ^ "James Connolly: Syndicalism and the Struggle for Irish Independence – National Liberation through Class Struggle! « Zabalaza Books". Zabalazabooks.net. 2014-03-11. Retrieved 2017-05-28.


  40. ^ Donal Nevin. James Connolly, A Full Life: A Biography of Ireland’s Renowned Trade ... Books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-05-28.


  41. ^ "An Irish anarchist look at the ideas of James Connolly". Struggle.ws. 1919-01-21. Retrieved 2017-05-28.


  42. ^ "James Connolly: Industrial Unionism and Constructive Socialism (1908)". Marxists.org. 2003-08-08. Retrieved 2017-05-28.


  43. ^ "James Connolly: Industrialism and the Trade Unions (1910)". Marxists.org. 2007-08-19. Retrieved 2017-05-28.


  44. ^ "James Connolly: The Re-Conquest of Ireland - Chap. 8". Marxists.org. 2003-08-15. Retrieved 2017-05-28.


  45. ^ "James Connolly's vision never realised". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2018-04-25.


  46. ^ "All Hail, the Scottish Workers Republic!". Marxists.org. Retrieved 2017-05-28.


  47. ^ "Brief History". Connolly Association. 2014-06-20. Retrieved 2017-05-28.


  48. ^ "James Connolly statue unveiled in honour of 1916 Easter Rising leader". M.independent.ie. Retrieved 2017-05-28.


  49. ^ Television interview, 11 May 1972. The Dick Cavett Show: John and Yoko collection [videorecording] DVD 2005,
    ISBN 0-7389-3357-0


  50. ^ "Search the Charts". The Irish Charts: All There Is to Know. Irish Recorded Music Association. Retrieved 26 February 2015.




Further reading



Writings



  • Connolly, James. 1987. Collected Works (Two volumes). Dublin: New Books.

  • Connolly, James. The Lost Writings (ed. Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh), London: Pluto Press
    ISBN 0-7453-1296-9

  • Connolly, James. 1973. Selected Political Writings (eds. Owen Dudley Edwards & Bernard Ransom), London: Jonathan Cape

  • Connolly, James. 1948. Socialism and Nationalism: A Selection from the Writings of James Connolly (ed. Desmond Ryan), Dublin: Sign of the Three Candles.



Bibliography



  • Allen, Kieran. 1990. The Politics of James Connolly, London: Pluto Press
    ISBN 0-7453-0473-7

  • Anderson, W.K. 1994. James Connolly and the Irish Left. Dublin: Irish Academic Press.
    ISBN 0-7165-2522-4.

  • Collins, Lorcan. 2012. James Connolly. Dublin: O'Brien Press.
    ISBN 1-8471-7160-5.

  • Fox, R.M. 1943. The History of the Irish Citizen Army. Dublin: James Duffy & Co.

  • Fox, R.M. 1946. James Connolly: the forerunner. Tralee: The Kerryman.

  • Kostick, Conor & Collins, Lorcan. 2000. The Easter Rising. Dublin: O'Brien Press
    ISBN 0-86278-638-X

  • Lloyd, David. Rethinking national Marxism. James Connolly and ‘Celtic Communism’ Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 5:3, 345-370.

  • Lynch, David. 2006. Radical Politics in Modern Ireland: A History of the Irish Socialist Republican Party (ISRP) 1896- 1904. Dublin: Irish Academic Press.
    ISBN 0-7165-3356-1.

  • Nevin, Donal. 2005. James Connolly: A Full Life. Dublin: Gill & MacMillan.
    ISBN 0-7171-3911-5.

  • O'Callaghan, Sean. 2015. James Connolly: My search for the Man, the Myth and his Legacy.
    ISBN 9781780894348

  • Ransom, Bernard. 1980. Connolly's Marxism, London: Pluto Press.
    ISBN 0-86104-308-1.

  • Strauss, Eric. 1973. Irish Nationalism and British Democracy, Westport CT: Greenwood.
    ISBN 0-8371-8046-5

  • Thompson, Spurgeon. "Gramsci and James Connolly: Anticolonial intersections", Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 5:3, 371-381


  • Townshend, Charles (2005). Easter 1916: the Irish rebellion. London: Allen Lane. 49, 81, 122, 134–6, 155–8, 161, 171, 214, 246, 254–7, 261–3, 309. ISBN 0-7139-9690-0.



External links















  • James Connolly Internet Archive

  • The Real Ideas of James Connolly


  • James Connolly's grave, Arbour Hill, Irish Graves website

  • IWW's Memorial Page for James Connolly

  • 1916 Walking Tour Site


  • "The Relevance Of James Connolly in Ireland Today" by George Gilmore


  • "James Connolly & Irish Freedom: A Marxist Analysis" by G. Schuller


  • "BBC online poll: James Connolly voted onto 100 'Greatest' people" at the Wayback Machine (archived 28 October 2009) by Niall Mulholland (CWI), 31 August 2002

  • Film biopic of Connolly underway


  • "James Connolly — A Marxist appreciation" (Spartacist League Dayschool)


  • "Connolly is set for a heroic makeover on silver screen" by Kevin Myers

  • Connolly family from the 1911 Irish Census


  • Connolly images collated on the online Multitext pages of University College Cork

  • In Defence of Connolly











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