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Songs of freedom : the James Connolly songbook / edited by Mat Callahan.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Connolly, James, 1868-1916.
Contributor:
Callahan, Mathew, 1951-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Patriotic music.
Songs.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (97 p.)
Place of Publication:
Oakland, CA : PM Press, c2013.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
James Connolly was an Irish republican and socialist leader. He was executed by a British firing squad because of his leadership role in the Easter Rising of 1916. He was the author of many books and articles, becoming one of the leading revolutionary theorists of his time. Mat Callahan is the founder of the artists' collective Komotion International, and is the author of Sex, Death and the Angry Young Man; Testimony; and The Trouble with Music. James Connolly Heron is a great grandson of James Connolly and the author of The Words of James Connolly. Theo Dorgan is a world-renowned poet, prose writer, editor, and translator. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry.
Contents:
Songs of Freedom (1907): Watchword / James Connolly
The rights of man
The symbol / John Leslie
Bide your time / M.J. Barry
Standard of freedom
When labor calls / James Connolly
Hymn to freedom / James Connolly
Freedom's pioneers / James Connolly
Drinking and thinking
A love song / James Connolly
Freedom of labor / John Leslie
Human freedom / James Connolly
The red flag
For labor's right / James Connolly
Lift the flag / James Connolly
The Marseillaise
A socialist war song / John Leslie
Freedom's sun / James Connolly.
1919 Souvenir Program (Connolly souvenir 1919): A rebel song
The watchword of labor
The legacy
The call of Erin
The international
The red flag.
The James Connolly songbook: Introduction to the James Connolly songbook
Arouse!
"Be moderate"
O slaves of toil!
The message
The blackleg
Shake out your banners
Saoirse a Rúin
A father in Exile
A festive song
James Connolly.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781604868951
1604868953
9781604869354
1604869356
OCLC:
868948441

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