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Ireland is one of the most important issues facing the British labour movement. For a quarter of a century the Six Counties of north-east Ulster have been in a state of latent, and sometimes open, civil war. In all this time, the left in Britain has been able to do nothing to help our working-class brothers and sisters, the majority of the people in both the Catholic and the Protestant communities, find a way out of the bloody cul-de-sac into which sectarianism, the conflict of national identiti...

                                          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.

Éirí Amach na Cásca – The 1916 Easter Rising - Map and description of the main battles and major events

Éirí Amach na Cásca – The 1916 Easter Rising – First published in Éiri amach na Cásca, The Easter Rising 1916, by Republican Publications, April 1986

We gather from the American newspapers that our countrymen in the United States army and navy have been highly distinguishing themselves in the cause of the war with Spain. This is as it should be and in consonance with all our Irish traditions. We are a fighting race, we are told, and every Irishman is always proud to hear our politicians and journalists tell of our exploits in the fighting line — in other countries, in other climes and in other times.

Part of a series of articles on Connolly: workersliberty.org/connolly Introduction: Connolly, Larkin and The Irish Worker, by Sean Matgamna Both Jim Larkin and James Connolly were Catholics, children respectively of Liverpool and Edinburgh Irish immigrants. Connolly was a “mick-mac”, an Irish Scots Catholic. Both received the religion as part of what they were. Both passed themselves off in Ireland as Irish-born, Connolly from Monaghan.

Part of a series of articles on Connolly: workersliberty.org/connolly Introduction: Connolly, Larkin and The Irish Worker, by Sean Matgamna Both Jim Larkin and James Connolly were Catholics, children respectively of Liverpool and Edinburgh Irish immigrants. Connolly was a “mick-mac”, an Irish Scots Catholic. Both received the religion as part of what they were. Both passed themselves off in Ireland as Irish-born, Connolly from Monaghan.

This series: The Northern Ireland crisis of 1968-9 and the left (Part 6, section 2) Click here to read section 1 of this article. Next article in this series: Part 7: The end of the old order in Northern Ireland Bernadette Devlin Speaks for the Workers Republic.

The experience of the Paris Commune had a profound impact on the thinking of Élisée Reclus and inspired him to develop his extensive philosophy of freedom.

The 1982 General Election in the 26 Counties was an important test of the Left in Ireland. The hunger strikes of the year before, in which seven Provisional IRA members and three members of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) had starved to death, had had a tremendous political impact in the South. The Provisional SF/IRA had begun to turn , falteringly at first, to more emphasis on 'the Ballot Box', to supplement their 'Armalites'.