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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.

A County Donegal-based priest has compared being present when the British embassy in Dublin was gutted in an arson attack to a truck being driven through the gates of the Russian embassy in Dublin.

It is as slanderous, scabrous and muck-mouthed a language as any you’ll find

Reverend John Walsh said he ‘would not have minded’ being in the cab of the lorry

‘He should have voted in favour. One child being murdered is one too many’