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Today the left is scattered in different groups, all fairly small. It has not always been so, and will not always be so. The fundamental reason for the left being in bits and pieces, and often very disoriented, is the malign effects of Stalinism.

In August 1923, more than 150 Cork businesses shut their doors, locking out some 6,000 workers in one of the biggest strikes to ever hit the city. As industrial war raged across Europe, Cork found itself at the epicentre of the battle for pay and conditions. Historian Emmet O’Connor recalls the period of strikes and strife and explores how the class war helped shape the Ireland we know today. Teaser

Connolly has become “a vessel into which each man can pour his dream.”

Connolly has become “a vessel into which each man can pour his dream.”

Introduction By Sean Matgamna In War is Hell James Connolly offers a prize example of the running with the hare and riding with the hounds he got into during World War One. He paints a true picture of the horrors of war for all its participants. He seems to be against all imperialist war. It reads like speeches that could have been and were made by any socialist before 1914. Indeed, war is hell. We are against war.

Introduction By Sean Matgamna In War is Hell James Connolly offers a prize example of the running with the hare and riding with the hounds he got into during World War One. He paints a true picture of the horrors of war for all its participants. He seems to be against all imperialist war. It reads like speeches that could have been and were made by any socialist before 1914. Indeed, war is hell. We are against war.

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.

A New Ireland – Memories and Reflections of Cardinal Cahal B Daly is not a biography but it is an insight into his thoughts

Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was one of the most famous - and notorious - women in the early twentieth century. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more.