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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.

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'.