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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.

The absence of a portrait of the Queen at Stormont and the presence of photographs of Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams opposite an IRA murder victim has angered TUV leader Jim Allister.

The IRA man and Northern Ireland prime minister's portraits feature in a new exhibition.

One of the worst cases of mass murder in Irish history may have been an attempt to terrorise Catholic middle classes into accepting the new Northern Ireland state, according to historian, Dr Éamon Phoenix.

In Throwback Thursday