"The Plough and the Stars":  james Connolly

INTRODUCTION:  LIFE FROM DEATH.  Liberty Hall; Irish Citizen Army.  Eóin MacNeill (1867-1945), commander of Irish Volunteers.  Sir Roger Casement (1864-1915).  Seamus Heaney, "Requiem for the Croppies."

I.  JAMES CONNOLLY.

A. BRITISH SUBJECT.  King's Liverpool Regiment, 1st battalion.  Lillie Connolly (née Reynolds).   Scottish Socialist Federation; Dublin Socialist Club; Irish Socialist Party.

B.  SOCIALISM & NATIONALISM.  Erin's Hope (1896).  (James) Keir Hardie (1856-1915), Scottish trade unionist and socialist.  The Workers' Republic (Connolly's newspaper).  Daniel De Leon; American Socialist Workers' Party; I.W.W. ("Wobblies").

C.  LABOR AGITATION IN IRELAND.  James Larkin (1876-1947), Irish trade unionist.  Books by Connolly (1910):  Labour, Nationality and Religion and Labour in Irish History.  Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU); "Dublin Lock-Out" (August 1913). Plough and stars (ICA flag).

II.  THE PROGRAM FOR AN IRISH SOCIALIST REPUBLIC.

A.  THE SOCIALIST PROGRAM.  Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794):  "The great appear great to us only because we are on our knees:  let us rise." 

B.  IRISH HISTORY & SOCIALISM.

III.  CONNOLLY'S END.  General election of 1910: 314 Liberal/Labour MPs; 271 Conservatives; 84 Irish nationalists.  H. H. Asquith (1852-1928), Liberal Prime Minister (1908-16).  Parliament Bill (1911).  Third Home Rule Bill (1912-14).  Yeats, "The Rose Tree".