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The Easter Rising's Forgotten Radical: James Connolly
While Patrick Pearse and the romantic nationalists dominate the popular memory of the 1916 Easter Rising, James Connolly brought a radically different vision to the General Post Office. A socialist trade unionist from Edinburgh who moved to Ireland to fight for workers' rights, Connolly founded the Irish Citizen Army not just for independence, but to protect striking dockworkers from police brutality. This episode explores how Connolly’s Marxist ideals clashed with the traditionalist Catholicism of his fellow rebels, yet united them in a shared act of defiance against British rule. We…
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