James Connolly

Biographer Anne Haverty notes that her conversion harmonise[d] with the quasi-mystical side of her personality and with her love of the natural world. CCM also made the choice to convert for non-spiritual reasons: being...

As the communal experiment was ending, CCM began two new professional relationships: one with Jim Larkin , then leader of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union , and another with James Connolly , father...

While CCM 's sister Eva Gore-Booth was a successful poet (as well as a feminist and labour activist), and Constance occasionally experimented with her own poetry. She wrote while in jail, and her poems are...

On the first morning of action, James Connolly announced the formation of the Irish Republican Army ; in it, CCM served as Staff Lieutenant. She first delivered medical supplies to the City Hall station with...

Greatly moved by the Easter Rising of 1916 and the executions which followed it, DS created a sculpture in memory of the events of the Rising; the sculpture now stands in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin...

She then joined the Connolly Club (later the Connolly Association), which was founded in London to work for the full freedom of the Irish people and to promote the ideas of James Connolly . In...

MG occasionally contributed to the Workers' Republic (1898-1916), founded by James Connolly , with whom she wrote and distributed a pamphlet entitled The Rights of Life and the Rights of Property, 1897. She also...

Constance, Countess Markievicz, published in Dublin a pamphlet on James Connolly 's Policy and Catholic Doctrine.

The Tricolour addresses the events of the Rising and the Irish nationalists who fought valiantly but in vain. It begins with a prose piece, Tricolour, in which DS takes the three colours of the...