The Life and Times of James Connolly

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Life and Times of James Connolly </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>by C Desmond Greaves is the standard by which other accounts of the Irish revolutionary's days are measured.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>James Connolly is Ireland's national hero. Trade union leader socialist party organiser and founder of the working class Citizen Army he was a key leader of the 1916 Rising and was executed by the British.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This new edition edited by Greaves' literary executor Anthony Coughlan is published in a partnership with Connolly Books in Dublin the Connolly Association and Manifesto Press.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A new global readership committed afresh to the cause of Irish national independence will find it a vital tool in understanding the relationship between working class political power and the role of the working class in the struggle for national independence.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>James Connolly's life and his writings acquire a new relevance as Britain's exit from the European Union highlights the complex conditions in which Ireland's struggle for national self determination takes new forms in the context of the supranational aspirations of the EU.</span></p>