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.