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The scale of the Northern conflict, more than 3,700 dead over 30 years in a population of just 1.5 million, is impossible to comprehend. I focused on my own parish

Former journalist wrote acclaimed biography of Jack Lynch and was Emeritus Professor of History at UCC

Working class poet Trudie Gorman will be hosting two gatherings - the first at 5.30pm tomorrow (Friday, June 30th) and the next on Monday, July 3rd at 6pm.

What did James Connolly contribute to politics in Ireland? A powerful myth, knitting together socialism and pre-1652 Gaelic-Irish society, defining socialism as the revival on a higher level of ancient Gaelic common property. Part of that myth was the idea that militant nationalism led to socialism and so was a way, perhaps, to reach the Protestant workers of north-east Ireland.

What did James Connolly contribute to politics in Ireland? A powerful myth, knitting together socialism and pre-1652 Gaelic-Irish society, defining socialism as the revival on a higher level of ancient Gaelic common property. Part of that myth was the idea that militant nationalism led to socialism and so was a way, perhaps, to reach the Protestant workers of north-east Ireland.

                                          What is Irish Republicanism?   The CPI calls for civil war The young Communist Party had very close ties, personal and ideological, to the revolutionary nationalists. The manifesto abridged here was published in The Workers' Republic of 17 December 1921.

From The Irish Review, October 1913