Studies in Irish radical leadership : lives on the left / edited by Emmet O'Connor and John Cunningham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Connor, Emmet, editor.

Cunningham, John, 1946- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor leaders--Ireland--Biography.

Labor leaders.

Labor unions--Officials and employees--Ireland--Biography.

Labor unions.

Labor unions--Officials and employees.

Labor movement.

History.

Socialists.

Ireland.

Socialists--Ireland--Biography.

Labor movement--Ireland--History.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Summary:

By European standards, the left in Ireland has not been successful historically, yet its failure has concealed considerable achievement in the occasional great popular mobilisations of the past two centuries. In the process, virtually every shade of radical thought has found expression in Ireland at some point or other, and the country has produced a diverse and colourful range of social rebels. Studies in Irish radical leadership, an edited collection of nineteen biographies of labour leaders and radical activists, examines a sample of the men and women who made that history of protest. Looking over the shoulders of Connolly and Larkin, it provides fascinating insights into the careers and mentalities of Irish labour's second-string leaders. It ranges from the primitive rebels of the early nineteenth century to the parliamentarians of the late twentieth, and asks what kind of people they were, what motivated them, and what is leadership?

Contents:

Introduction

I. Primitive rebels

II. Early labour radicals

III. Pioneering trade unionists

IV. Communists

V. Children of the revolution

VI. Mavericks

VII. Artists as socialists

VIII. Socialists in parliament

IX. Party leaders

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719091049

0719091047

OCLC:

936302848

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