The ‘Labour Hercules’: The Irish Citizen Army and Irish Republicanism, 1913–23 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The ‘Labour Hercules’: The Irish Citizen Army and Irish Republicanism, 1913–23 write by Jeffrey Leddin. This book was released on 2019-03-20. The ‘Labour Hercules’: The Irish Citizen Army and Irish Republicanism, 1913–23 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Irish Citizen Army (ICA) was born from the Dublin Lockout of 1913, when industrialist William Martin Murphy ‘locked out’ workers who refused to resign from the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union, sparking one of the most dramatic industrial disputes in Irish history. Faced with threats of police brutality in response to the strike, James Connolly, James Larkin and Jack White established the ICA in the winter of 1913. By the end of March 1914, the ICA espoused republican ideology and that the ownership of Ireland was ‘vested of right in the people of Ireland’. The ICA was in the process of being totally transformed, going on to provide significant support to the IRA during the 1916 Rising. Despite Connolly’s execution and the internment of many ICA members, the ICA reorganised in 1917, subsequently developing networks for arms importation and ‘intelligence’, and later providing operative support for the War of Independence in Dublin. The most extensive survey of the movement to date, The ‘Labour Hercules’ explores the ICA’s evolution into a republican army and its legacy to the present day.
Bernard Shaw, Sean O’Casey, and the Dead James Connolly
Bernard Shaw, Sean O’Casey, and the Dead James Connolly - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bernard Shaw, Sean O’Casey, and the Dead James Connolly write by Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel. This book was released on 2021-07-21. Bernard Shaw, Sean O’Casey, and the Dead James Connolly available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book details the Irish socialistic tracks pursued by Bernard Shaw and Sean O’Casey, mostly after 1916, that were arguably impacted by the executed James Connolly. The historical context is carefully unearthed, stretching from its 1894 roots via W. B. Yeats’ dream of Shaw as a menacing, yet grinning sewing machine, to Shaw’s and O’Casey’s 1928 masterworks. In the process, Shaw’s War Issues for Irishmen, Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress, The Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman, Saint Joan, The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, and O’Casey’s The Story of the Irish Citizen Army, The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars, and The Silver Tassie are reconsidered, revealing previously undiscovered textures to the masterworks. All of which provides a rethinking, a reconsideration of Ireland’s great drama of the 1920s, as well as furthering the knowledge of Shaw, O’Casey, and Connolly.
The Mandaean Book of John
The Mandaean Book of John - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mandaean Book of John write by Charles G. Häberl. This book was released on 2019-11-18. The Mandaean Book of John available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic homelands by war and oppression. Today, they are a community in crisis, but they provide us with unparalleled access to a library of ancient Gnostic scriptures, as part of the living tradition that has sustained them across the centuries. Gnostic texts such as these have caught popular interest in recent times, as traditional assumptions about the original forms and cultural contexts of related religious traditions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have been called into question. However, we can learn only so much from texts in isolation from their own contexts. Mandaean literature uniquely allows us not only to increase our knowledge about Gnosticism, and by extension all these other religions, but also to observe the relationship between Gnostic texts, rituals, beliefs, and living practices, both historically and in the present day.
The Irish Citizen Army
The Irish Citizen Army - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Irish Citizen Army write by Ann Matthews. This book was released on 2014-09-05. The Irish Citizen Army available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Irish Citizen Army was originally established as a defence corps during the 1913 Lockout, but under the leadership of James Connolly its aims became more Republican and the IRB, fearing Connolly would pre-empt their plans for the Easter Rising, convinced him to join his force with the Irish Volunteers. During the Rising the ICA was active in three garrisons and the book describes for the first time in depth its involvement at St Stephen's Green and the Royal College of Surgeons, at City Hall and its environs and, using the first-hand account of journalist J.J. O'Leary who was on the scene, in the battle around the GPO. The author questions the much-vaunted myth of the equality of men and women in the ICA and scrutinises the credentials of Larkin and Connolly as champions of both sexes. She also asserts that the Proclamation was not read by Patrick Pearse from the steps of the GPO, but by Tom Clarke from Nelson's Pillar. She provides sources to suggest that the Proclamation was not, as has always been believed, printed in Liberty Hall, and that the final headquarters of the rebels was not at number 16 Moore Street, but somewhere between numbers 21 and 26.
Labour in Ireland
Labour in Ireland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Labour in Ireland write by James Connolly. This book was released on 1917. Labour in Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
