Conor McCarthy is Lecturer in English at Maynooth University. He’s the author of Modernisation, Crisis and Culture in Ireland 1969-1992 (2000) and The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said (2010).

Conor McCarthy’s selections and insightful introduction confirm Connolly’s continuing relevance as an indispensable shaper of modern Irish nationalism and an internationalist and anti-colonial thinker whose work anticipated figures like Frantz Fanon or C.L.R. James. This book is an invaluable resource for the history of anti-colonialism and socialism and their continuing lessons for the present.

• Introduction; Further Reading; 1. The Early Years and the Irish Socialist Republican Party; 2. America and the International Workers of the World; 3. Labour in Irish History; 4. Empire and Revolution; 5. The Lock-Out, the First World War, and the Rising; Coda: Connolly’s Afterlives.

Conor McCarthy is Lecturer in English at Maynooth University. He’s the author of Modernisation, Crisis and Culture in Ireland 1969-1992 (2000) and The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said (2010).

Conor McCarthy’s selections and insightful introduction confirm Connolly’s continuing relevance as an indispensable shaper of modern Irish nationalism and an internationalist and anti-colonial thinker whose work anticipated figures like Frantz Fanon or C.L.R. James. This book is an invaluable resource for the history of anti-colonialism and socialism and their continuing lessons for the present.

• Introduction; Further Reading; 1. The Early Years and the Irish Socialist Republican Party; 2. America and the International Workers of the World; 3. Labour in Irish History; 4. Empire and Revolution; 5. The Lock-Out, the First World War, and the Rising; Coda: Connolly’s Afterlives.

Conor McCarthy is Lecturer in English at Maynooth University. He’s the author of Modernisation, Crisis and Culture in Ireland 1969-1992 (2000) and The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said (2010).

Conor McCarthy’s selections and insightful introduction confirm Connolly’s continuing relevance as an indispensable shaper of modern Irish nationalism and an internationalist and anti-colonial thinker whose work anticipated figures like Frantz Fanon or C.L.R. James. This book is an invaluable resource for the history of anti-colonialism and socialism and their continuing lessons for the present.

• Introduction; Further Reading; 1. The Early Years and the Irish Socialist Republican Party; 2. America and the International Workers of the World; 3. Labour in Irish History; 4. Empire and Revolution; 5. The Lock-Out, the First World War, and the Rising; Coda: Connolly’s Afterlives.