Links below for how to buy. This book discusses Connolly not just as an Irish hero, but traces how he was shaped by and responded to the international socialist and labour movement of his time. It traces his influences and influence through a transnational network of working-class activists, socialist agitators, and revolutionary nationalists.
'This book takes Connolly off the statue’s plinth and depicts the dynamic Marxist revolutionary class fighter that he was. [It] explains the location of his politics at the heart of the ebb & flow of the global socialist debates and movements of his time.' — John McDonnell MP
‘[McNulty] breaks new ground in assessing his contributions and arming those who seek to continue Connolly’s struggle for socialist change today.’ — Paul Murphy, People Before Profit TD.
‘McNulty’s carefully researched and eloquently written book is a vital contribution to our understanding of this most extraordinary man.’ — Marc Mulholland, Professor of Modern History at St Catherine’s College, Oxford.
This book offers a measured consideration of Connolly, alive to his continuing political relevance.
It seeks to explain Connolly’s political development in dialogue with the socialist debates and controversies of his day.
It considers his experience in Britain, the USA, and Ireland, and influences from further afield. It integrates elements of political biography, blending context with a transnational account of the international socialist movement, its pamphlets, newspapers and personalities.
It concludes with a review of Connolly’s dramatic final years: the First World War, the Easter Rising, Connolly’s ‘incorrigible revolutionism’ and the vexed issue of the tensions between socialism and Irish nationalism.
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