num_pages: 864
description: This biography of one of the leaders of Ireland's 1916 Rising deals with Connolly s activities as soldier, agitator, propagandist, orator, socialist organizer, pamphleteer, trade union leader and insurgent. It traces the evolution of his thinking as social democrat, republican, revolutionist, syndicalist, revolutionary socialist, and insurrectionist. The book covers his years in Edinburgh, Liverpool, America and Ireland, and is based largely on Connolly s prolific writings in 27 journals and in some 200 letters. On May 12, 1916, he was executed in Kilmainham Jail in Dublin.
language: English
title: James Connolly: A Full Life
titlecomplete: James Connolly: A Full Life
characters: James Connolly
genres: Ireland, History, Biography
ratings_count: 23
publisher: Gill and Macmillan