James Connolly, Irish Socialist Republican and greatest of all Irish Labour leaders, was shot – strapped to a chair because his wounds forbade him to stand – by a British firing squad on May 12, 1916.
Connolly’s work and ideas left their mark not only in Ireland but on American and British Labour movements.
The Life and Times of James Connolly is a major contribution to the history of Ireland’s fight for freedom. It is widely recognised as the definitive biography of the greatest of all Irish Labour leaders.