Links relating to James Connolly

One of the best ways of understanding the sort of man James Connolly was, and how little the world has changed in essence in the 90 years since his execution, is to read what he had to say about the world as he found it and how it affected his people. Some of these links provide access to a fairly comprehensive collection of his articles, essays and books. Other links offer critiques of his stance on various issues or on his overall contribution to Ireland and the wider world.

www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/

This site claims to host the largest archive of the works of James Connolly on the Internet.

www.ucc.ie/celt/connolly.html

This site carries electronic versions of Connolly’s major written works and compilations of articles and essays published after his death: Labour in Irish History; The Re-Conquest of Ireland; Socialism and Nationalism; The Workers’ Republic; Insurrectionary Warfare; Labour and Easter Week.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/

Carries information about Connolly and also material that helps to provide historical and cultural context to his life, philosophy and work.

http://workersrepublic.org/Pages/Ireland/Connolly/gurleyflynn2.html

An interesting account by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (The Rebel Girl) of the James Connolly she knew and admired during his time in the United States from 1903-1910.

http://www.wageslave.org/jcs/archive/

The website of the James Connolly Society of Canada and the United States. Another very good source of information about Connolly and of his writings.

http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj80/jcon.htm

A review by Shaun Doherty of two books relating to Connolly. Events have overtaken some of the points he made in the article, published in 1998, but worth a read.

http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/james_connolly.htm

This gives some detail of evidence presented at Connolly’s court-martial in 1916. Strangely positioned in the ‘Spying’ section of the website!

http://www.socialistparty.net/pub/archive/histconnolly.htm

An article worth reading by Niall Mulholland.

http://irsm.org/history/jc&irishfreedom.html

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

http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/llt/54/br_30.html

A review by Margaret Ward dealing mainly with Connolly’s advanced feminism.

http://www.eirefirst.com/procg.htm

The text of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic.

Republican, socialist, feminist: Connolly and the women's movement - Sally Richardson looks at the key role played by James Connolly in linking suffragism and socialism

http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/features/republican-socialist-feminist/

Irish women and revolution - Sally Richardson examines the intertwining of feminism and revolution in Ireland

http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/features/irish-women-and-revolution/