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In August 1922, at the height of the Civil War, when the Communist Party of Ireland could count on barely 50 activists, two agents of the Communist International held a secret meeting in Dublin with two IRA leaders. The four signed an agreement providing for the transformation of Sinn Fein into a socialist party. In return, Moscow was to assist with the supply of weapons to the IRA. The incident illustrates what made the Comintern a beacon of ...

James Larkin (1876-1947) retains a central position in the pantheon of the Irish labour movement. In the popular consciousness he is most commonly linked to his role in the epic 1913 Dublin Lockout and to his turbulent leadership of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union. Less well known is his role within international communism and his attempts to establish a significant socialist presence in southern Ireland during the 1920s.

Robert McElborough was a Belfast trade unionist of little education, who spent most of his life living in the Sandy Row district and working on the tramways and in the gas industry. An active organizer in two loyalist trade unions, he fought proudly "on the workers" side for wages and conditions as a descendant of an Ulster Scot. This selection from his autobiography provides a unique record of Protestant working-class life, and a trenchant co...

This is the biography of 'Big Jim' Larkin. Through the research of Emmet O'Connor, Larkin - Labour leader and agitator - is thoroughly evaluated. Based on police records, FBI files, and archives of the Communist International in Moscow, O'Connor explores the hidden side of a very private person who kept his ambition behind a veil of silence.

In August 1922, two agents of the Communist International held a secret meeting in Dublin with two IRA leaders. The four signed an agreement providing for the transformation of Sinn Fein into a socialist party. In return, Moscow was to assist with the supply of weapons to the IRA. From February 1918, when over 10, 000 thronged central Dublin to acclaim the Bolshevik revolution, to July 1941, when the Party in Eire was dissolved by the votes of...

Studies in Irish radical leadership is a collection of biographies of labour leaders and radical activists. The book aims to discuss the lives of the less well-known men and women of the left, to explore alternative approaches to history, to put radicals in their social context, and to study the meaning of leadership.Looking beyond a field dominated by Connolly and Larkin, the book takes second string personalities out from under the shadows o...

s new edition of Emmet O'Connor's classic and pioneering work on Irish labor history, providing an introduction for the general reader and a synopsis for the specialist. The first edition, which covered 1824 to 1960, has been updated to the year 2000 with the inclusion of three new chapters on developments in the Republic and Northern Ireland. In addition to providing a challenging overview of labor's past, O'Connor addresses industrial relati...