James Connolly

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Gill and Macmillan, 1981 - Biography & Autobiography - 151 pages
A biography of James Connolly, who was the Belfast organiser of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union. He helped lead the workers of Dublin during the Great Lockout of 1913 and his tiny Irish Citizen Army took part in the 1916 Rising, following which Connolly was executed.

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Contents

Intolerance
15
Charity
43
Hope
73
Copyright

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About the author (1981)

Ruth Dudley Edwards (born 24 May 1944, in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish historian, a crime novelist, a journalist and a broadcaster, in both Ireland and in the United Kingdom. Edwards was born and brought up in Dublin and educated at University College Dublin, Girton College, Cambridge and Wolfson College, Cambridge. Her nonfiction books include An Atlas of Irish History, James Connolly, Victor Gollancz: A Biography (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), The Pursuit of Reason: The Economist 1843-1993, and The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions. Also a crime fiction writer, her novels include: Corridors of Death, The Saint Valentine's Day Murders, The English School of Murder, and Clubbed to Death.

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