Labour in Irish History and the Re-Conquest of Ireland.

James Connolly

Labour in Irish History and the Re-Conquest of Ireland.

Dublin

Maunsel

1917

Second edition, inscribed by Constance Markievicz

Among the seven signatories of the Irish Proclamation of 1916, James Connolly initially worked more for the cause of worker’s rights and socialist ideals than for Irish nationhood. “Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me,” he wrote in this influential book, first printed in 1910. A leader in the 1913 Dublin Lockout, who helped form the Irish Citizen Army, he was also an avowed feminist and mentor to rebel leader Constance Markievicz, who inscribed this book. His execution in May of 1916 following the Easter Rising, tied to a chair because of his wounds suffered during the fighting, turned public sentiment against the British and made martyrs of the rebels.