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James Connolly

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June 05, 1868 in Edinburgh, Scotland, The United Kingdom

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May 12, 1916

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James Connolly (Irish: Séamas Ó Conghaile, 5 June 1868 – 12 May 1916) was an Irish socialist leader. He was born in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, to Irish immigrant parents. He left school for working life at the age of 11, but became one of the leading Marxist theorists of his day. Though proud of his Irish background, 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 of 1916.

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Books by James Connolly

Average rating: 4.25 · 28 ratings · 1 review · 25 distinct works

	The Workers' Republic 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Labour In Irish History 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Socialism and the Irish Rebellion: Writings from James Connolly 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Selected Writings: Introduced & edited by Peter Beresford Ellis by James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (Editor) 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1988	My rating:
	The Lost Writings 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Words Of James Connolly 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	What Connolly Said 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1999	My rating:
	Socialism and Nationalism 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004	My rating:
	The Re-Conquest of Ireland 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007	My rating:
	After the Factory: Reinventing America's Industrial Small Cities 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:

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Quotes by James Connolly

“Our demands most moderate are – We only want the earth!”
― James Connolly

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“It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage to the finer sentiments of the race are hypocritical and unreal, and only intended for the consumption of stay-at-homes. There are no humane methods of warfare, there is no such thing as civilized warfare; all warfare is inhuman, all warfare is barbaric; the first blast of the bugles of war ever sounds for the time being the funeral knell of human progress… What lover of humanity can view with anything but horror the prospect of this ruthless destruction of human life. Yet this is war: war for which all the jingoes are howling, war to which all the hopes of the world are being sacrificed, war to which a mad ruling class would plunge a mad world.”
― James Connolly

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