GREAVES, CHARLES DESMONDTHE LIFE AND TIMES OF JAMES CONNOLLY
Seven Seas Publishers, Berlin, 1976
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448 s., angličtina
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C. Desmond Greaves’s The Life and Times of James Connolly, first published in 1961, is a major contribution to the history of Ireland’s fight for freedom and is widely recognised as a standard biography of the greatest of all Irish Labour leaders.
Connolly’s work and ideas left their mark not only in Ireland but on the American and British labour movements. In his early manhood he was one of the pioneers of the modern labour movement in Edinburgh, the city of his birth. The scene then shifted to Dublin, where Connolly founded the Irish Socialist Republican Party, whose programme declared : “The national and economic freedom of the Irish people must be sought in... the establishment of an Irish Socialist Republic.”
Then came a period of seven years in the U.S.A. where he worked with Daniel De Leon’s Socialist Labor Party. A strong critic of De Leon’s “sectish” tendencies, he became one of the founders of the I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World). In 1910 Connolly returned to Ireland and played a leading part in the working-class struggles in Belfast, and in the great Dublin lock-out-the highest point reached by the class struggle in Europe in the period leading up to the 1914 war. On the outbreak of war with Germany, Connolly declared: “We have no foreign enemy except the Government of England ... We serve neither King nor Kaiser, but Ireland.” Thus he set out on the path which led to the Easter Rising of 1916.
Since 1948, C. Desmond Greaves has been editor of The Irish Democrat, published in London.
